Software Engineering Technical Leader - Devops/SRE, AWS, Python/Go - 9 - 14 years
Cisco
- Location
- Bangalore, India
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- Posted
- Sep 12, 2026
Skills
About this role
Meet the Team As a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Leader on the Intersight Team you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud platforms. The broader team is composed of experienced engineers who value innovation and accountability. You will represent the Intersight SRE team, driving technical leadership, solving complex challenges, and shaping and delivering the team’s technical roadmap. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, customers and security, to design, influence, build, and maintain SaaS systems operating at multi-region scale. Your work will directly impact the success of our initiatives by ensuring the underlying platform infrastructure is robust, efficient, and aligned with operational excellence.
Your Impact
We are seeking an experienced Engineer to represent a high-performing team dedicated to ensuring the reliability and scalability of cloud services, with a focus on a rapidly growing next-generation project. The ideal candidate will have hands-on SRE or systems/network administration experience, with familiarity in AWS. This role involves close collaboration across product engineering, service engineering, and SRE teams in a high-trust, well-coordinated environment. If you are looking to excel in a fast-paced environment creating innovative solutions and want to make a significant long-lasting impact, this job is for you. Design, build, and optimize cloud and data infrastructure to ensure the high availability, reliability, and scalability of systems to meet customer needs, while implementing SRE principles such as monitoring, alerting, error budgets, and fault analysis. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including customers, development, product management, and security teams, to create secure, scalable solutions and enhance operational efficiency through automation. Troubleshoot complex technical problems in production environments, perform root cause analysis, and contribute to continuous improvement efforts through postmortem reviews and proactive performance optimization. Lead the architectural vision and shape the team’s technical strategy and roadmap, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals, driving innovation, and influencing the technical direction. Serve as a mentor and technical leader, guiding teams and fostering a culture of engineering and operational excellence by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand use cases and feedback, translating them into actionable insights and effectively influencing stakeholders at all levels. Utilize your strong programming skills to integrate software and systems engineering, building core data platform capabilities and automation to meet enterprise customer needs and roadmap objectives. Develop strategic roadmaps, processes, plans, and infrastructure to efficiently deploy new software components at an enterprise scale while enforcing engineering best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science with 8-14+ years of related experience Extensive practical experience in several of the following areas: Linux, Public Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Networking, Security, Systems Administration, Software Development, and CI/CD Ability to design and implement scalable and well tested solutions, with a focus on streamlining operations. Strong hands-on experience in cloud, preferably AWS. Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills, with experience in tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation. Experience with observability tools using Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, CloudWatch, Splunk or Open Telemetry. Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or similar languages. Good understanding of Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building/managing a cloud-based