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Cisco is an enterprise technology company focused on networking, security, and digital infrastructure. Its portfolio includes routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, edge computing platforms, Webex collaboration tools, observability products, AI-enabled software, and cloud-managed services. Cisco serves enterprises, service providers, and governments, supporting the design, operation, and security of large-scale networks and data centers through technology, professional services, training, and ongoing support.

Senior SRE Database Administrator, Hybrid — Cisco

Build and operate Cisco’s hybrid cloud NoSQL and vector database services. Maintain reliability, security, automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery across cloud platforms.

Description

  • Keep production services scalable, resilient, performant, and secure
  • Maintain uptime through on-call coverage, monitoring, and alerts aligned with SLOs and SLAs
  • Run disaster recovery drills and manage incidents, from root-cause analysis through remediation and follow-up improvements
  • Set reliability and security requirements for systems and components
  • Automate recurring work and reduce points of failure
  • Create tools and methods to detect product, process, and reliability issues early
  • Use established practices and business context to improve products and services
  • Work with cross-functional partners to gather input and deliver work
  • Design and deploy moderately complex solutions that improve reliability, availability, latency, and performance
  • Build automated platforms using design, deployment, and coding skills
  • Design and test high-availability and disaster recovery measures across regions and customers
  • Forecast resource needs and prepare capacity reports
  • Build infrastructure monitoring and performance visibility tools
  • Partner with development and operations teams to identify issues
  • Join the SRE on-call rotation and lead postmortems and root-cause investigations
  • Build and validate security controls in system designs
  • Coordinate with security teams on controls and, when needed, support security incident response
  • Coach and assist less experienced colleagues

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline
  • At least seven years of technical experience with cloud databases
  • Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus, and/or at least two of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
  • Experience using AI frameworks such as the OpenAI API and LangChain
  • Experience designing, administering, and maintaining vector or cloud database architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and frameworks such as Git or GitHub and Jenkins
  • Experience automating database tasks with Python
  • Experience with database lifecycle management
  • Preferred: experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, or container technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Preferred: Python backend experience or other programming skills
  • Preferred: experience building scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be offered, subject to eligibility and continued employment
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • One floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • Paid day off for your birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • Four paid personal wellness days
  • 16 vacation days per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
  • Flexible vacation time off for eligible exempt employees
  • 80 hours of sick time provided at hire and each January 1
  • Carry forward up to 80 unused sick hours
  • Additional paid leave for critical or emergency family matters
  • Option to take up to 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
  • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies

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