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Cisco Meraki, a division of Cisco Networking, is a cloud-managed IT company and leader in cloud-controlled Wi-Fi, routing, and security. Our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we’ve created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One where diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences shape our work and fuel our evolution. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that’s accessible and secure for everyone.
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic SRE Fleet team, which is responsible for ensuring the stability, scalability, and efficiency of our infrastructure. You will play a critical role in maintaining and improving a fleet of over 2000+ machines across a global cloud environment. This role is highly collaborative, involving close interaction with engineering and SRE teams in the UK and San Francisco to scale and optimize our infrastructure.
RESPONSIBILITES- Develop and maintain automation code for cloud maintenance processes using Ansible and Ruby.
- Efficiently coordinate and execute large scale maintenance operations acting as a central point between multiple teams
- Debug and resolve complex failure scenarios across large-scale systems, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Design, implement, and optimize GitLab CI pipelines to streamline deployment and testing workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks and scaling challenges.
- Proactively troubleshoot issues across the fleet, using a deep understanding of Linux systems and networking.
- Contribute to the creation of robust unit tests and infrastructure testing suites with RSpec.
- Participate in collaborative projects to improve infrastructure efficiency, scalability, and observability.
- Work cross-functionally with teams in different time zones, fostering a culture of shared ownership and reliability.
- Develop and maintain automated tools for collecting infrastructure data to support compliance requirements.
- Streamline compliance processes by reducing manual overhead through automation.
- Be part of an on-call SRE team responding in real time to production incidents
- Experience in:
- Working in Linux environments across multiple machines, comfortable with bash scripting
- Scripting / programming languages, specifically around automation. Ideally ruby.
- CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitLab CI
- Infrastructure automation, ideally Ansible.
- Cloud infrastructure providers, ideally AWS
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and debugging in complex distributed systems.
- Monitoring and alerting, prometheus, grafana etc
- Experience managing and optimizing fleets of thousands of machines.
- Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across teams in multiple time zones.
- Passion for automation, scalability, and infrastructure as code.
At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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