Meet the Team
Join the founding DevOps team building Cisco’s next-generation Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) platform from the ground up. We are a high-impact, autonomous team dedicated to redefining how the world connects across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our culture is built on technical excellence, AI-native innovation, and a “one company, many careers” philosophy. You will lead a growing team of engineers in a fast-paced environment, collaborating directly with principal architects to power the future of the internet.

Your Impact

As the Lead DevOps Engineer, you will architect the CI/CD strategy for our Alpha launch in early 2026 and lead the platform through Beta and General Availability (GA). You will ensure reliable, automated deployments handling billions of daily transactions across 9+ global regions. This is a rare opportunity to shape the DevOps culture and deployment architecture of a transformative product from day one.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI/CD Architecture: Design and oversee deployment pipelines across AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and GCP (GKE) using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor Grade 10/8 DevOps engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish team-wide best practices.
• Multi-Cloud Strategy: Define MCN’s multi-cloud deployment strategy with a focus on consistency, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure as Code Excellence: Architect Terraform module patterns for regional deployment automation across multiple cloud providers.
• AI-Native Operations: Champion the development of MCP servers and AI agents that detect deployment issues, automate rollbacks, and provide intelligent troubleshooting.
• Security Architecture: Design and implement comprehensive secrets management and PKI strategies across AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, and GCP Secret Manager.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems and DevOps or SRE practices at scale.
• 5+ years of programming expertise in Python or Go (experience with C++ or Java is also acceptable).
• Proven experience in a technical leadership role, specifically mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Expert-level mastery of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Jenkins) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Advanced Kubernetes expertise, including architecting and managing clusters across EKS, AKS, and GKE.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP stack, routing (BGP), and VPN (IPsec).
• Experience with multi-cloud deployment at scale and secrets management across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Knowledge of VPP (Vector Packet Processing) deployment architecture and high-performance networking.
• Experience building MCP servers or AI agents for operational automation and self-healing systems.
• Proven track record with GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD, Flux) and certificate management/PKI infrastructure.

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.

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.