Engineering Technical Leader(SRE / DevOps Engineer - Strong Linux/Python Coding /Ansible - 9-14 years Exp)

  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1437210

Meet the Team:

Cisco’s Security Business Group crafts build and deliver out-standing security products that form the foundation of Cisco’s innovative security architecture. Cisco Secure Workload is passionate about providing a security solution to protect customer workloads whether they are running in data centers, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both.

Secure Workload gives customers a unified platform to monitor workload activity and identify the activity patterns to build Application Dependency Maps. Building upon this information,

Secure Workload allows customers to enforce security policies as close to the workloads as possible, in order to achieve micro-segmentation and zero-trust security.

This team has deep product knowledge and broad technical knowledge about a variety of networking and systems environments. We clearly articulate the technical differentiators of our products interacting with customers, channel partners, and the Cisco field. We work to identify customer requirements and prioritize feature development. Cisco Secure Workload Engineering.

Your Impact:

  • Primarily responsible for Cisco Secure Workload product BU support .
  • Collaborates closely with Technical support team , Customers, channel partners, and the Cisco field Team to resolve Customer issues.
  • Automate several tasks and Increase Team and Operational  efficiency.
  • Improve the Product quality by holding post-incident reviews.
  • You will contribute to Product bug fixes and Enhancements
  • Site reliability engineers also play a role in Product feature testing thereby improve product quality.
  • Responsible for Operational work. This includes several tasks, such as the following:
    • Emergency incident response via alerts
    • Change management for Production changes
    • IT Cloud infrastructure management

Minimum Qualification:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical 10+ years of experience
  • Strong experience with Linux ( RHEL,CentOS,Ubuntu )
  • Strong programming experience in python, shell scripting (bash) and using git.
  • Proven ability in Python development projects.
  • Have working experience with automation using Ansible
  • Experience of working with Ansible/Terraform or any other configuration, infrastructure management tools 24x7 Production support in SaaS/Public cloud environment.
  • Experience working with tools like iptables, tcpdump , Openssl (certificate management)
  • Proficient in TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SMTP.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills at application, network and host operating system levels
  • Good understanding of system/application security
  • Experienced with package management tools (rpm, dpkg, apt-get)
  • Experienced with troubleshooting web-based applications (nginx, haproxy, ruby)

Preferred Qualification:

  • Basic Hadoop knowledge preferred.
  • Prior experience in supporting a SaaS platform hosted in a public cloud.
  • Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of virtualization (KVM/VMware) and cloud environments like AWS/Oracle Cloud is a Plus.
  • Willing to participate in an on-call pager rotation Interface and Collaborate with internal product/development teams

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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