Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Meet the Team

Join Cisco’s Enterprise AI team, the core group enabling Generative AI powered experiences across Cisco. Our mission is to build secure, scalable AI platforms that empower teams to safely develop, deploy, and operationalize AI-powered solutions. We operate at the intersection of applied AI, cloud infrastructure and security - partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to bring trusted AI to life at an enterprise scale.

We are a fast-growing, highly collaborative team of platform engineers, AI engineers, and data scientists who value technical depth, ownership, and pragmatic execution. What makes this team exciting is the opportunity to define how secure Generative AI is built and governed inside a global technology leader.

As a Senior SRE in our India hub, you will tackle complex networking and service mesh challenges across a global footprint. Your expertise in Anthos and Istio will be critical in maintaining the high-availability platform that powers Cisco's most advanced AI initiatives.

Your Impact

- Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to provision and manage scalable GCP and On-premise Kubernetes resources and Docker containers.

- Configure and optimize Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) and Istio for service-to-service communication, security, and observability.

- Implement and audit IAM roles and GCP Quotas, ensuring the environment is "Secure by Design" with robust encryption and secrets updates.

- Build and leverage observability dashboards using Elasticsearch and Kibana to monitor system health and provide proactive alerts on performance and cost.

- Execute capacity planning and scaling for new feature rollouts, ensuring the environment stays within defined cost envelopes and security standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.

- 10+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud/On-prem Operations or DevOps.

- Strong proficiency in Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.

- Extensive experience with IAM implementation, GCP Quota management, and Anthos Service Mesh (ASM)/Istio.

- Proven experience with Apigee and the ELK stack.