DevOps Engineer - Talos

Location: This position can be fully Remote in the United States, based outside the Bay area.

Are you passionate about solving dynamic cybersecurity problems? Are you passionate about building systems to handle tons of data that is constantly growing? Come join Cisco's Talos Research & Intelligence organization.

The Talos Backend Software DevOps organization plays a pivotal role in providing critical security intelligence, data, and tools to both the research teams and Cisco security email, web, and firewall products to protect our enterprise customers from cyberattacks.

You are an engineer who is passionate about DevOps and building deployment automation that enables automated configuration, management, and scalability of cloud microservices and infrastructure processes.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a fun and versatile team working on new and exciting challenges in the next generation security backend space.

We want you to help engineer, implement and expand Cisco cloud infrastructure security micro-services.

• Maintain the full lifecycle of services for the day-to-day systems operations functions of the Talos Backend platform using tools such as Kubernetes and CI/CD tools such Jenkins, and GitHub.
• Maintain services by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system health. You'll drive improvements by introducing new technologies or developing new tools.
• Resolve Talos Backend issues by implementing long term fixes and automation to avoid repeat failures in the future.
• Collaborate with Developers, QA and Automation team members to ensure successful completion, deployment, integration, maintenance, and operations of solutions, focusing on scalability and reliability.
• Participate in the weekly on-call rotation along with the rest of the team.

• 5 years' experience as a DevOps, Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, Systems or Software Engineer involved in the automation of systems processes.
• 5 years experience with AWS technologies, including but not limited to EKS, Spark, Lambda, etc.
• 5 years experience in DNS (Domaine Name System)

• People come to you seeking guidance for your expertise with Unix/Linux.
• You champion the Software Development Process, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills.
• You're no stranger to software development using Agile/Scrum practices.
• You have at least a BA/BS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with open-source technologies such as Docker, Kafka, etc is also desired.