Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

The successful applicant will provide ownership of and be performing work in FedRAMP or IL-5 type environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

What You'll Do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Multicloud Defense team which delivers on the promise of cloud-first simplicity with robust cloud security, you'll be responsible for deploying, testing, monitoring, and maintaining the health of our custom application within a FedRAMP-compliant environment. This role requires a strong understanding of cloud services, security standards, and compliance requirements. Our Mission:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Deploy custom applications to a FedRAMP-certified cloud environment, ensuring all security and compliance protocols are followed
• Conduct detailed testing to confirm the application is functioning accurately post-deployment, including performance and security testing
• Continuously monitor the application's performance, availability, and security, taking proactive measures to maintain optimal operation
• Troubleshoot and resolve any issues that arise, coordinating with development teams as needed for issue resolution
• Ensure application updates and patches are safely and efficiently implemented in accordance with FedRAMP requirements
• Maintain up-to-date documentation regarding deployment processes, operational procedures, and incident reports
• Participate in security audits and assist with the remediation of any findings related to the application's infrastructure
• Develop and refine operational best practices and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensuring our customers consistently get high-quality releases

Who You'll Work With

You'll work closely with the compliance team to ensure ongoing FedRAMP authorization is maintained and that all operational activities align with compliance standards and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the application's reliability, performance, and security.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Linux and Networking
• 3+ years of work experience with one of the Public Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 3+ years of work experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment tools and processes
• 5+ years of work experience with Python scripting
• 3+ years of experience with cloud Kubernetes services and Containerization (EKS, AKS, GKE)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in operating firewall
• Experience with orchestration and configuration management tools such as Terraform
• Experience with operating with FedRAMP environment
• Knowledge of digital certificates
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with production environment

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.