Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Location: San Jose, CA 95123
Description:
Description
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. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Join us as we pursue our new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Cisco, we're committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other's success. Learn more about Cisco careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Role Summary
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for building secure, scalable secure solutions. This individual will help shape the direction of our security products, guide the development of innovative features, and ensure that our solutions remain at the cutting edge of security technology.
You'll apply your expertise in cloud and enterprise security, CI/CD, site reliability/DevOps and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable products. You will also take ownership of key features, guide the team through architectural decisions, and lead the development lifecycle from design to deployment!
Meet the Team
Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? Come join us on the Security Platform Services Group!
What you'll get to do
We've taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. "Nice-to-have" means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don't worry if you can't check off every box. We're not hiring a list of bullet points-we're interested in the whole you.
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an 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.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
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. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Join us as we pursue our new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Cisco, we're committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other's success. Learn more about Cisco careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Role Summary
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for building secure, scalable secure solutions. This individual will help shape the direction of our security products, guide the development of innovative features, and ensure that our solutions remain at the cutting edge of security technology.
You'll apply your expertise in cloud and enterprise security, CI/CD, site reliability/DevOps and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable products. You will also take ownership of key features, guide the team through architectural decisions, and lead the development lifecycle from design to deployment!
Meet the Team
Are you passionate about working on products that make a difference for your customers? Do you enjoy building large scale applications that are powered by huge data sets? Do you value working in an environment where you're empowered to make key technical decisions across a full stack of technologies? Come join us on the Security Platform Services Group!
What you'll get to do
- Support a culture of learning and growth by collaborating with and mentoring engineers. Help the team grow their technical expertise.
- Collaborate with your team to own major features and components from conception to delivery, ensuring that technical solutions meet business objectives, security requirements, and user needs.
- Demonstrate your understanding of CI/CD principles, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps to ensure that our cloud and enterprise security solutions enable our customers to compose, run and monitor playbook execution.
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure the security, stability, and availability of the SOAR production system and be ready to diagnose, tackle, and resolve production issues with urgency and efficiency, especially related to Site Reliability, CI/CD, pipelines, test automation and security.
- Deliver high-quality solutions and ensure alignment with product objectives. Be an advocate for SRE, CI/CD, test automation and scalability in all aspects of the product.
- Identify new technologies and techniques that improve CI/CD, test automation, performance, and scalability of the SOAR platform. Actively resolve potential issues before they impact customers or the platform.
- Collaborate to set the technical vision, expectations, and standards for the team.
- Minimum 8+ years with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- Enterprise experience in software engineering with an emphasis on cloud security, security, infrastructure, or networking.
- Cloud and UNIX enterprise services offered, including secure access controls, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and secure APIs.
- Experience with at least one language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++, or similar) with deep experience in cloud-native development (microservices, containers etc).
- Experience with DevOps practices, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools for automated deployment pipeline
- Experience with automation tools like Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
We've taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. "Nice-to-have" means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don't worry if you can't check off every box. We're not hiring a list of bullet points-we're interested in the whole you.
- Extensive experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, including monitoring and alerting, and performance benchmarking.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD, test automation and site reliability using GitLab and git-based tooling.
- Experience in leading incident response efforts and forensic analysis in a cloud security context
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an 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.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!