Site Reliability Engineer-Java

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Meet the Team

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an end-to-end, full stack platform designed for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. Join the FedRAMP team where you will be a part of one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale, Bigdata, and microservices platforms in the world. You will be working with engineers who operate highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient applications with low operational burden by handling and improving the reliability and resiliency of services and infrastructure. You thrive driving initiatives on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability engineering, and getting rid of tedious, manual tasks.

Your Impact

Splunk's FedRAMP SRE team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help lead, design and build the next generation of our large scale cloud offering. You will be working on core services and applications that form the primitives for our current and future cloud service offerings. Site Reliability Engineers in this role will be engaging with multiple service owners across the platform to teach and implement modern interpretations of SRE, observability, Chaos Engineering and DevOps. This role is highly visible and impactful to the organization and will help shape Splunk's Engineering culture for years to come. Your job, in a nutshell, is to make every team around you better... including your own!

You will :

Own Splunk Cloud in FedRAMP environments.

Work across the organization to deliver quality products that delight Splunk's passionate users.

Work with teams of tight-knit engineers who are building a state-of-the-art, cloud-based environment for massive-scale data processing.

Minimum Qualifications

You have experience or an interest in working with regulated computing environments such as FISMA and / or FedRAMP and are enthusiastic about doing it better.

You have worked with Kubernetes, EKS, GKE or AKS and the associated ecosystems. Kubernetes' certifications or an interest in obtaining these certifications are a plus, such as those from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).

You have a good understanding of Linux systems (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)

Experience with at least one programming language, preferably java. Knowledge of working with and automating Linux systems tasks using this language is required, including working with configuration files and system services. Knowledge of common data structures and algorithms, as well as their performance characteristics is required.

Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience monitoring cloud environments with Splunk.

Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably AWS, Azure or GCP. Cloud certifications are a plus or an interest in obtaining these certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE).

Experience with large scale distributed cloud service development, infrastructure, traffic management and architecture.

Experience with distributed architectures / systems with optimized and scalable software that operates on a large number of nodes.

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. Simply put - we power the future.

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.

Cisco is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis

U.S. employees have access 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.

Accommodations for Disabled and Neurodivergent Applicants

We offer the necessary guidance and access to assistive technology and services to support your application process. If you require assistance or accommodations during the application, interview, or hiring process, please contact us.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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 $126,500.00 to $182,000.00 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 is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and / or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies :

10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

Non-exempt employees

Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

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

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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below :

New York City Metro Area :

$152,500.00 - $252,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$135,800.00 - $224,400.00