Software Modeling Engineering Technical Lead

Описание

Join a platform engineering team at Cisco and provide hands-on technical leadership in evolving a Kubernetes-based platform for enterprise network applications, shaping how applications integrate with and operate across cloud, hybrid, edge, and customer-managed environments.

Responsibilities

• Define platform architecture, technical strategy, and multi-release roadmaps; translate product and operational needs into clear designs and implementation plans
• Design and evolve Kubernetes capabilities, including cluster lifecycle, controllers and reconciliation, custom resources, scheduling, networking, storage, service discovery, and upgrades
• Lead the design and development of shared platform services for connectivity, identity and access management, distributed data, observability, lifecycle automation, and administration
• Improve reliability and security through high-availability design, recovery, backup and restore, capacity planning, production debugging, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation
• Prepare the platform for future AI workloads through workload isolation, resource governance, secure model serving, telemetry, and accelerator support
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on development, design and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, incident analysis, mentoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows

Requirements

• A related bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years building, operating, or extending production Kubernetes platforms
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge and strong Go and/or Java development experience
• Proven technical leadership of complex, cross-team initiatives from architecture through production
• Strong engineering expertise across distributed systems, Linux, containers, networking, security, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows

Nice to have

• Kubernetes operators, controllers, and custom platform APIs
• Distributed databases, messaging, consensus, or dynamic-routing technologies
• Identity and service security in restricted-connectivity or air-gapped environments
• Supporting data-intensive or AI-related workloads on Kubernetes

We offer

• Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era and beyond
• Work with impact
• Limitless opportunities to learn and grow with depth and breadth of technology, resources, and industry experts
• Benefits & perks designed to support every aspect of your life: from your well-being to your time away to your family
• Occasional schedule flexibility is required for collaboration with U.S. colleagues