Site Reliability Engineer I (Full Time)
Cisco
About the Role
As an entry-level Site Reliability Engineer, you will play an active role in maintaining platform health and learning modern cloud operations alongside experienced mentors.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor infrastructure and application telemetry across multi-tenant cloud environments to help maintain platform health and uptime.
- Assist with incident triage and response workflows alongside senior engineers to resolve service-impacting events promptly.
- Execute and suggest improvements to automated operational runbooks and standard procedures to reduce repetitive troubleshooting steps.
- Contribute to Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) by documenting event timelines and helping identify permanent preventive solutions.
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering and Product teams to enhance observability dashboards, alert hygiene, and system health signals.
- Participate in a structured operational on-call rotation with team mentorship to support global cloud platform reliability.
Requirements & Tech Stack
Minimum Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months).
- Qualifying education and work experience should be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Basic scripting or programming capability in Python, Bash, Go, or a similar language for automation and log parsing.
- Demonstrated curiosity, analytical troubleshooting skills, and enthusiasm for collaborating within a fast-learning team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Academic coursework or project exposure to cloud platforms (such as Amazon Cloud, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure).
- Introductory experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker or basic Kubernetes concepts.
- Familiarity with observability and logging tools (such as Splunk SPL, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana) through labs, internships, or personal projects.
- Exposure to infrastructure automation concepts or configuration management tools (such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet).
- Curiosity about using modern AI developer tools (such as GitHub Copilot or Claude) to accelerate scripting and operational runbook documentation.