Cisco · 1 month ago
Engineering Manager, SRE (Meraki Platform Developer Experience)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$184K/yr - $264K/yr
5+ years expCisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. The Engineering Manager, SRE will provide architectural leadership, mentor the team, and focus on team execution while also contributing directly to the code base.
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Responsibilities
Holding regular one-on-ones with your team, ongoing coaching and mentorship, writing performance evaluations, and compensation planning
Helping your team navigate decisions between in-house solutions and open source products; striking a balance between self-learning, formal training, conferences, and commercial support
Be an advocate for security best practices in the tools and processes that your team develops
Be a champion for SRE practices within your own team and across the wider engineering organization. Work with other engineering managers to grow our culture of automation and reliability
Work with your tech lead to develop a 2-3 year roadmap for automation of maintenance and capacity planning efforts; additionally, assurances around our SLAs
Working with your senior individual contributors to identify and scope areas for improvement; such as migrating from a vast collection of homegrown configuration management scripts to a modern, scalable configuration management tool. (We picked ansible)
Qualification
Required
You are interested in a leadership role because it allows you to work closely with others to help them achieve their best. You have a year of experience leading a team of 3+ people, or you're a senior individual contributor looking to move into a management role
You have 5+ years of experience developing systems for large-scale production environments. Our stack is primarily ansible, elk, ruby and bash, but your experience might be with comparable tools
You have experience building and supporting rapidly growing systems that balance time to market, usability, reliability, and technical debt
You are never satisfied by just seeing something work. Your curiosity drives you to peek behind the curtain to gain a deeper understanding of what's going on
You are experienced with a variety of tools that help you manage, understand, and debug large, complex distributed systems
Preferred
Supporting products where users expect 100% uptime
Formal project management or IT service management
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance
A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
Performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary
Company
Cisco
Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products. It is a sub-organization of Cisco Press.
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Chuck Robbins
Chair and CEO
Carl Solder
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