Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Join Cisco in its Splunk, a Cisco company, to build a safer and more resilient digital world using an end‑to‑end, full‑stack platform designed for hybrid, multi‑cloud environments. The FedRAMP team offers a unique opportunity to work within one of the world’s largest cloud‑scale, Big‑data, and microservices platforms.

The FedRAMP SRE team seeks a Site Reliability Engineer who 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 foundation for current and future cloud service offerings, engaging with multiple service owners across the platform to implement modern SRE practices, observability, chaos engineering, and Dev Ops.

This role is highly visible and will 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 tight‑knit engineering teams building a state‑of‑the‑art cloud‑based environment for massive‑scale data processing.

• Experience or strong interest in regulated computing environments such as FISMA and/or FedRAMP.
• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, GKE or AKS and related ecosystems, and interest in obtaining Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Go or Python, and capability to automate Linux system tasks.
• Strong problem‑solving skills: identify performance bottlenecks, anomalous behavior, and root‑cause of service issues.

• Monitoring cloud environments with Splunk.
• Development and deployment experience in hosted cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and interest in cloud certifications.
• Experience with large‑scale distributed cloud service development, infrastructure, traffic management, and architecture.
• Familiarity with distributed architectures that run on many nodes and require scalable software.

The starting salary range for this position is $ to $, reflecting new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations. Additional compensation may include incentive pay, equity, and benefits. U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits package: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability, basic life insurance, and additional wellness offerings.

Paid time off includes 10 paid holidays per year plus a floating holiday, 1 paid birthday day, paid year‑end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness. Non‑exempt employees accrue 16 days of paid vacation per year and have 80 hours of sick time upon hire. Eligible employees may earn annual bonuses and, for sales roles, incentive pay per Cisco sales plans.

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.

We offer assistance and accommodations for disabled and neurodivergent applicants throughout the application process. Please contact us if you require any accommodations.