Senior DevOps/CI-CD Engineer, MCN - DevOps, Python/Go, CI/CD, AWS/Azure, Exp: 8-11 Yrs

Meet the Team Join the founding DevOps team building Cisco’s next-generation Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) platform from the ground up. We are a small, high-impact team of four engineers across the US and India, operating with high autonomy to shape the architecture of a platform handling billions of daily transactions. We are AI-native from day one, leveraging tools like Cursor and Codex to innovate faster while collaborating closely with Backend, SRE, and QA teams to power an inclusive future.

Your Impact As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will architect the CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation that enable MCN to operate reliably across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will play a critical role in our Alpha launch in early 2026, building the foundation that scales from Alpha to Beta and eventually to Global Availability (GA) across 9+ global regions. This is your chance to move beyond maintaining existing systems and instead build a self-healing, AI-powered infrastructure from the ground floor.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust CI/CD deployment pipelines across AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and GCP (GKE) using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Create reusable Terraform modules for regional deployment automation to ensure reproducibility, consistency, and disaster recovery across multiple cloud providers.
• Develop AI-powered operations, including MCP servers and AI agents, to detect deployment issues early and automate intelligent troubleshooting and rollbacks.
• Implement secure credential and secrets management strategies using AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, and GCP Secret Manager.
• Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana to ensure global service health.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in managing and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of programming expertise in Python or Go (experience with C++ or Java is also applicable).
• Proven expertise with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Jenkins) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Ansible).
• Direct production experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration within cloud environments (EKS, AKS, or GKE).
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for high-traffic environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing (BGP), and VPN (IPsec).
• Experience with multi-cloud production operations and GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Knowledge of secrets management (IAM roles, RBAC, service accounts) and certificate rotation/PKI.
• Experience or interest in building AI-native DevOps tools or MCP servers for operational automation.
• Excellent technical communication skills and a passion for mentoring peers and sharing knowledge.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.