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DevOps Engineer - (Engineering Operations)

We are the Cisco Secure - Engineering Operations organization, and we are thrilled you are considering joining us!

We are on a mission to make our products work together seamlessly, creating a fantastic user experience with less friction, toil, and burden for our users when provisioning, integrating, and administering our products.

As a DevOps Engineer you will be guiding & building a set of shared development tooling solutions for the entire Cisco Secure product portfolio, enabling our engineers to be optimally equipped for backend and front-end development. You will be collaborating with engineers, analyzing Developer Workflows, and optimizing through new tooling, artificial intelligence and new processes that help improve Developer Productivity. You will help ensure that our developers get fast feedback on their changes, that their local build and test operations match what happens in our continuous integration system and assure that their code passes all tests and quality gates.

What you will do:

• Help define and implement best in class Developer Experience tooling - help ensure a smooth and efficient Development Lifecycle, optimize Developer Workflow, improve Developer Confidence, integrate AI into Developer Tooling and automate infrastructure and support of our development backlog, knowledge, source code and build systems.

• Work with other software engineering teams to understand their needs and help develop solutions that enable cross-team collaboration while increasing efficient development across the entire software development ecosystem.

• Partner with product managers, engineers, and security teams to collect feedback and develop specifications for new cloud-based products/services, applications, and solutions, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Design cloud architecture, combining technologies to create optimal solutions for Cisco, and complete plans and specifications to develop solutions.

• Drive the roll-out of public and private cloud management platforms, evaluate its performance and implement enhancements.

• Learn on the job, every single day and become the best DevOps engineer and quality professional you possibly can be!

The ideal candidate for this role has a high degree of developer empathy, adaptability, curiosity, ownership and flexibility, works to build relationships with developers, enjoys feedback and enjoys solving difficult problems for improved developer experience.

Skills you have:

• Action oriented problem solver with a passion for improving and optimizing development workflows.

• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Comfortable working independently, receiving guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

• Develops relationships with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships.

• Enhances Developer Experience and Productivity; proven backend (python), frontend (node, react) and productivity tooling and improved Developer Workflow.

• Leads projects with limited complexity to execute against a defined cloud engineering roadmap.

• Implements and supports cloud-based Backlog Management & Source Code Management tools like Jira, GitHub, Copilot, BitBucket, Perforce or Azure DevOps.

• Experience driving continuous integration & delivery tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Circle CI and buildbot among others.

• Contributes to the design, build, and maintenance of application infrastructure cloud services and supporting APIs like AWS (preferred), Azure and Google Cloud Engine.

• Container experience with Docker (preferred) and orchestration with Kubernetes

• Continuous Configuration Automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.

• Scripting and strongly typed languages like python (+1), bash, ruby, go, java, c#, swift

The impact you will have includes:

• Enable Cisco Secure product teams to accelerate delivery of value and focus more on innovation

• Focus on Engineering organizational transformation

• Researching & defining standards and strategy around engineering tooling for Cisco Secure

• Building relationships across all of Cisco Secure engineering

• Setting up common engineering tooling for Cisco Secure

• Helping Cisco Secure Engineering teams migrate to Platform Team tooling standards

• Tooling focus will be on SCM, Backlog, Collaboration, Knowledge, Build and CI/CD

Our Team:

Ask a Cisconian (that’s what we employees call ourselves) about the best part of working at Cisco, and 9 times out of 10 we’ll say, "the people!"

Our versatile distributed, remote team provides a great deal of autonomy but expects clear accountability. We thrive in exploring new and innovative ideas but are rooted in making those decisions based on quantitative data.

Why Cisco? .:|:.:|:.

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Cisco is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We can grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and our achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potential candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

And if this role is exciting to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the description or qualifications. Finally, and most importantly, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.

We will ensure that individuals who need help during the application process are provided reasonable accommodation to participate, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.