DevOps & Cloud Developer - Fed Cloud Platform Services What You'll Do Essential functions of the role include Why Cisco

Job description

What You'll Do

• Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall systems design, development, and delivery.
• Work in conjunction with engineering, product management, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.
• Lead the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way.
• Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual).
• You are accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures. Implement enhancements and practices for modern development principles and methodologies.
• Rapid deployment, automation, monitoring and troubleshooting around a cloud hosted environment.
• Develop and maintain tooling to assist with things like integration tests, performance tooling, building production and staging environments, CI systems, source control etc.
• Work in a small team of smart engineers who are focused on continual improvement of skills and learning new things.
• Automate repetitive tasks in the department's workflow.
• Create and build out the service delivery tool set and document it along.
• Use current and cutting-edge technologies while testing bleeding-edge technologies for future use.
• Break, then Fix, then Automate, Repeat.

Essential functions of the role include

• Running Linux application servers (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Fluid virtual infrastructures (VMware, Docker, AWS, OpenStack)
• Experience with Apache (Tomcat) / NGINx
• Networking, storage and sysadmin
• Database servers, preferably Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL
• SVN/GIT alongside Agile development processes
• Understanding of performance metrics from stress/load tests
• Various cache configurations, including Redislab
• Securing high-traffic properties (cloud and on-prem)
• Experience with build tools, preferably like Gradle or Maven
• Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Leading cloud-based Jenkins servers
• Jira <-> ZenDesk integration and Confluence
• Scripting and programming languages (Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Golang)
• Bachelor's degree required

You posses a track record of delivering hardened, fault-tolerant, high-availability designs and are lazy enough to automate tasks and smart enough to document them well (including Server Architecture diagrams). You posses a strong sense of ownership and urgency. You are a creative, strategic and critical thinker with a high attention to detail. You have the ability to juggle multiple tasks, set priorities and meet deadlines. You are always the Cool-head in a crisis and instill confidence in those around you while solving problems.

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

• We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
• We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.
• We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

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