Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end‑to‑end full‑stack platform designed for hybrid, multi‑cloud environments. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable.

The FedRAMP team is part of one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud‑scale, Big Data and microservices platforms in the world. You will work with engineers who operate highly available, scalable, and cost‑efficient applications with low operational burden, handling and improving the reliability and resiliency of services and infrastructure. You thrive by driving initiatives on automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, reliability engineering and by eliminating tedious, manual tasks.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will help lead, design and build the next generation of our large‑scale cloud offering. You will work on core services and applications that form the primitives for current and future cloud service offerings, engage with multiple service owners across the platform, and teach and implement modern interpretations of SRE, observability, chaos engineering and Dev Ops.

The role is highly visible and impactful, helping shape Splunk’s engineering culture for years to come.

• Own Splunk Cloud in FedRAMP environments.
• Work across the organization to deliver quality products that delight Splunk’s passionate users.
• Collaborate with teams of tight‑knit engineers building a state‑of‑the‑art, cloud‑based environment for massive‑scale data processing.

• Experience or interest in regulated computing environments such as FISMA and/or FedRAMP.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) and related ecosystems. Kubernetes certifications or intent to obtain them (CKA, CKAD, CKS) are a plus.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc).
• Experience with at least one programming language, preferably Go or Python, including automating Linux system tasks, working with configuration files and system services. Knowledge of common data structures, algorithms and performance characteristics is required.
• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, anomalous system behavior and resolving the root cause of service issues.

• Experience monitoring cloud environments with Splunk.
• Experience with development and deployment in hosted cloud environments, preferably AWS, Azure or GCP. Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer or Google Associate Cloud Engineer are a plus.
• Experience with large‑scale distributed cloud service development, infrastructure, traffic management and architecture.
• Experience with distributed architectures/systems optimized for scalability across a large number of nodes.

• Starting salary range: $ – $ (U.S. & Canada). Individual pay determined by location, market conditions, skillset, experience, and education.
• Medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, short and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and numerous wellbeing offerings.
• Paid holidays: 10 paid holidays per calendar year plus one floating holiday for non‑exempt employees.
• Paid time off: up to 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year‑end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
• Vacation: 16 paid vacation days per full calendar year for non‑exempt employees; flexible program for exempt employees.
• Additional paid time: 80 hours of sick time upon hire, 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward annually, optional 10 paid days per year for volunteering, and additional time for family emergencies.

Cisco is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.