Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Robust Intelligence)

About the position

Robust Intelligence's mission is to secure the AI transformation. The Robust Intelligence team joined Cisco through acquisition in fall 2024 to lead research and development of security and AI at Cisco. The team has deep expertise in AI and security and is an active contributor to cutting edge research and standards on AI and security. At Cisco, our mission is to build AI Security at Cisco scale as well as lead the next generation of AI infrastructure for disruptive security products across Cisco. Robust Intelligence pioneered the category of AI Security and created the first platform for securing AI applications from supply chain, model vulnerabilities, and real time attacks. Funded by Sequoia and Tiger Global, Robust Intelligence customers include the world's largest banking and financial institutions, HR and payroll services, FinTech and financial software, technology and consumer electronics, insurance, consulting, travel, data centers and cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity as well as government agencies. The company was acquired by Cisco in 2024.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure
• Develop a robust observability platform that drives developer productivity and enables best-in-class availability
• Drive improvements in cloud architecture, network security, and automation tooling for both production and development purposes
• Support hybrid-cloud customer deployment, helping drive last-mile delivery of AI Security products
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 5 years or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of industry experience as an SRE/DevOps/Software Engineer
• Experience building and maintaining systems in Kubernetes or other Docker container systems
• Experience managing AWS cloud resources, or other major cloud providers
• Experience building products and tools with programming languages like Python, Golang, and Bash

Nice-to-haves

• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex requirements and propose effective solutions
• Experience in Security field, passionate about AI Security
• Experience deploying infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code utilities such as Terraform and Helm
• Experience with infrastructure requirements on network and security compliance
• Experience deploying Kubernetes clusters using tools like ArgoCD and Jenkins

Benefits

• Quality medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Numerous wellbeing offerings
• Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year
• One floating holiday (for non-exempt employees)
• Day off for birthday
• Vacation time off policy with flexible limits for exempt employees
• Sick time off policy with 80 hours provided on hire date and annually
• Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues
• Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community