Site Reliability Engineer Cassandra DBA

Who We Are

Todays bold business environment is more than that  its a period of disruption, global business change and internal process complexity. For us to focus on simplicity and the best customer experience, we need great talent and the right abilities to be successful. This is now a mantra for our Cisco leadership team and for us.

The Cisco IT team is changing the way we run Ciscos operations by improving the power of technology, the best of business processes and superior data insights. Together, we will Reimagine the Cisco experience. Show the world how to Reinvent applications and demonstrate the future of the Internet to Showcase the power of Cisco: our people, products, processes, systems, and data. Please join us and make this journey together!

What youll do

Site Reliability Engineers are responsible and take ownership for reliability, scalability, automation, and other aspects related to uptime and availability of our database services. You will need to have strong skills in following areas:

Design, write and build tools to improve the reliability, availability and scalability of our Cassandra NoSQL Cloud Database Platform Offerings.

Augment existing instrumentation to build a cohesive picture of the characteristics of our systems with special attention to points of failure.

Design and develop improvements, focused on resilience, to our production systems to achieve and surpass SLOs

Help improve our operational practices to minimize service disruptions

Work with our Service Assurance team to modernize and improve our monitoring and alerting stack.

Design new tools to supervise and hard-working alerts that help discover failures or issues before our customers.

Work with engineers to identify root cause and fix issues

Influence, design and create new architectures, standards and methods for large-scale enterprise systems.

Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

Who you will work with

We are an agile team inside Cisco IT, building the next generation NoSQL Databases on cloud platforms that will be used by all of Cisco as we move to cloud native applications. This is a small team of highly motivated individuals demonstrating Agile scrum methodology. The team is responsible for building and operating Hybrid Cloud Database services in a DevSecOps model.

We move at a fast pace and are passionate about cloud and automation. We have a history of building clouds at a large scale and are looking for someone who as passionate about it as we are.

Who You Are

You are a success driven Site Reliability Engineer with tried technical skills and who has a passion for enterprise cloud database platform automation and DevOps frameworks. You have a consistent record of designing, developing and leading NoSQL Database Ops code using open source technologies.

A site Reliability Engineer would need to know the process of IT and automation and have some experience in leading such process. Having experience working with database cloud applications and how they operate would help out the team. The position typically requires a degree in Computer Science or related field as well as relative work experience in database cloud applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer science or related field

Technical Expertise: 6-9 yrs

Understand IT processes including architecture, design, implementation, and operations

Solid grasp of Cassandra Architecture and Administration which includes Designing, Provisioning, Upgrading, Operating, Backups, Security, Performance etc

Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like GIT, Jenkins

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with automating DB tasks using python, Database Lifecycle Management, Cassandra OpsCenter.

Solid grasp on building scalable databases using hybrid cloud infrastructure

Experience with configuration automation using Ansible

Experience and practice with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure, Kubernetes preferred

Behavioral Competencies:

Able to form relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility, Self-motivated, able and willing to help where help is needed.

Exposure to Agile development practices. Working with geographically distributed teams

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an expansive future for all.

We adopt digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think were old (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but were also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do  you cant put us in a box!

But Digital Transformation is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.) Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair  Dont care. Tattoos  Show off your ink. Like polka dots 

Thats cool. Pop culture geek  Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing 

Be you, with us!

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


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, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.


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