XDR Sr. Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Location:
    RTP, North Carolina, US
  • Alternate Location
    Austin, Fulton, Atlanta
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    -
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1441034

The application window is expected to close on: 8/10/2025.  

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.  

 

Meet the Team 

The Cisco XDR SRE Team is dynamic, decisive, and fast-moving due to the critical nature of the products we support. Joining our team means working on meaningful projects that directly enhance the security of our customers. We take pride in seeing the tangible impact of our work, knowing it helps safeguard organizations and individuals against evolving threats. 


Your Impact 

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a leading role in improving the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the XDR Incident Generation team. Your work will focus on implementing sophisticated automation, encouraging a culture of operational perfection, and driving the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD best-practices. Additionally, you'll mentor team members, design robust platforms and services, and ensure their flawless lifecycle management. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Manage the full lifecycle of platform services, from design and implementation to maintenance.
  • Promote and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices to enable scalable, version-controlled, and auditable infrastructure.
  • Lead the automation of build, deploy, and release processes to boost team efficiency and innovation.
  • Design, develop, and maintain modern CI/CD - pipelines aligned with industry best-practices.



Minimum Qualifications 

  • Extensive experience with AWS services (including VPC, S3, Lambda, SQS, Network Firewall, ECS/EKS, IAM, DynamoDB or CloudWatch) along with expertise in AWS security and/or cost optimization.
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, and scripting/programming languages including Python and/or Bash.
  • Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or TeamCity, combined with robust knowledge of incident management, postmortem analysis, and/or supervising SLOs/SLAs.
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotation.



Preferred Qualifications 

  • Bachelors + 7 years, or Masters + 4 years of related experience.
  • Collaborate across teams, effectively communicating technical concepts with transparency and precision.
  • Mentor junior engineers, foster skill development, and uphold SRE best-practices within the team.
  • Expertise in crafting AI driven workflows for incident response, forecasting potential issues (e.g., resource exhaustion, outages), and enabling auto-scaling or remediation.
  • Proficient in integrating AI/ML tools for anomaly detection, threat response, and serverless architecture optimization on AWS.




Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future. 

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 


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.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.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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