Site Reliability Engineer

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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Meet the Team

The Splunk Tech Ops organization runs Splunk Cloud, blending SRE, Systems Engineering, and Service Engineering disciplines across functional global teams. We are a team striving for operational awesomeness and trying to automate the world. We empower our customers to execute our vision of making machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. In this role, you will use your cloud experience to drive the growth of Splunk Cloud while working with major industry vendors.

Your Impact

As a Tech Ops SRE, you will help maintain, contribute to, and improve the next generation of our large-scale Cloud offering. You willbe responsible forthe infrastructure that powers Splunk's cloud services, moving tasks from small one-off implementations to massive scale across thousands of machines. You will be a data-driven decision-maker, ensuring that we are alerted to issues before our customers notice and constantly seeking ways to automate manual processes.

Candidates that are humble, hungry to learn, and skilled will thrive in this role.

You will:

• Own the maintenance and improvement of Splunk's large-scale Cloud infrastructure.

• Automate every manual process and tedious taskencounteredtooptimizesystem performance.

• Work across global teams to ensure operational excellence and system reliability.

• Collaborate with peers from engineering, product management, and customer support in a stable, supportive environment.

• Actively take responsibility for projects and contribute to a culture of honesty and open communication.

• Benefit from mentorship opportunities and continuous professional development

Minimum Qualifications

• Operational experience at scale with hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure) and networking.

• Experience with architecture, deployments, and networking in one or more major cloud vendors.

• Development skills in at least one language, such as Python,Shellor Go.

• Familiarity with basic programming concepts, including input sanitization and unit testing.

• A data-driven approach to decision-making and a passion for monitoring and feedback loops.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in roles such as Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, or Dev Ops Engineer.

• Experience working in Observability/infrastructure teams as a Splunk adminincluding distributed systems at scaleandobservabilitytools.

• Experience working on distributed systems and a passion for finding edge cases that appearatscale.

• A strong mindset for automation and the ability to bring small tasks to large-scale implementation.

• Experience working with open-source projects and a desire to contribute back to the community.

• Ability to balance high-level engineering goals with a healthy work-life commitment.

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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental…