Cloud Engineer

About this role

The application window is expected to close on: 08/07/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

Meet the Team  

Our Security Policy and Access team is at the heart of Cisco’s mission, building and operating market-leading platforms like the Cisco Identity Services Engine and Meraki Access Manager to simplify security compliance for global organizations. We are a critical engine within our $3B+ Security Business Group, directly enabling Cisco’s strategic pivot to a software-first, recurring revenue model that secures the world’s most vital networks. You will join a high-performing, collaborative group of engineers, architects, and product experts who thrive in an Agile environment where cross-functional teamwork is the daily standard. What makes us truly   exciting   is the scale of our impact; we are building cloud-native, AI-integrated solutions that solve the most complex challenges in zero-trust security and identity management. If you are passionate about owning services from design to production and want to work on a team that values innovation, reliability, and continuous learning, this is the place to make your mark.  

Your Impact  

The team is made up of builders and problem-solvers who enjoy tackling complex distributed systems challenges while supporting highly scalable, resilient, and observable services in production. What makes this team especially exciting is the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud engineering, cybersecurity, automation, and AI-assisted development while directly influencing products used by some of the world’s largest organizations.  

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support cloud-native SaaS applications and services.  

• Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems using   microservices   architecture.  

• Develop and   operate   services running in public cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Cisco Private Cloud  

• Participate in the design and implementation of service automation, monitoring, observability, and telemetry pipelines.  

• Analyze service health, performance metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to improve reliability and customer experience.  

• Own services through the full lifecycle, from design and implementation to production support and continuous improvement.  

• Work on deployment, configuration, and operational readiness for SaaS services in production environments.  

• Review architecture, designs, implementation plans, test strategies, and operational procedures.  

• Troubleshoot complex production and customer issues across application, infrastructure, database, and networking layers.  

• Collaborate with engineering, product management, security, SRE, DevOps, and customer-facing teams.  

• Contribute to building secure, scalable, and reliable business solutions for Cisco customers and partners.  

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science , Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.  

• 1 - 2 years of professional software engineering experience in   product   engineering, SaaS, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering environment.  

• Hands-on experience developing, testing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based applications or services in at least one public cloud environment such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.  

• Programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or Go.  

• Experience building rich web UIs in full stack technologies, services, such as Java, Ruby on Rails/NodeJS, React,   JavaScript .  

• Experience with cloud-native application development, including containers, service deployment, scalability, resiliency, and production readiness.  

• Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across application, service, and cloud infrastructure layers.  

• Experience using Generative AI tools to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, or operational workflows.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of assigned features or components, and collaborate effectively in an Agile engineering team.  

• Familiarity with software engineering practices such as code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, source control, CI/CD, secure coding, and maintainable design.  

• Exposure to observability tools and practices, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service health analysis.  

• Understanding of   cloud security fundamentals, identity, access control, RBAC,   secrets   management, and secure service-to-service communication.  

• Exposure to incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, or reliability improvement practices.  

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. 

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $125,700.00 to $176,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay

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