DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

Role Overview
As a DevOps Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in accelerating development velocity by building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and highly stable infrastructure. Your expertise in CI/CD automation, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and system optimization will directly impact the efficiency and speed of our development workflows. By ensuring seamless software delivery and reliable infrastructure, you will empower teams to innovate and deploy faster while maintaining operational excellence.

Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. Our environment combines the best aspects of a startup culture within a multi-geography silicon organization, providing an innovative, growth-driven career path for engineers working on ASICs, hardware boards, and software infrastructure.

Your Impact

• Develop and maintain a scalable CI/CD environment, reducing friction in the development cycle and accelerating release velocity.
• Implement containerization and orchestration solutions to improve deployment efficiency and system resilience.
• Ensure rapid scalability and stability of services supporting the development process.
• Proactively monitor and optimize CI/CD pipelines to minimize downtime and maximize developer productivity.
• Investigate and resolve system inefficiencies, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted development experience.
• Work closely with IT, software teams, and lab engineers to continuously refine automation workflows.
• Implement security best practices across lab operations, boot mechanisms, and network infrastructure to maintain system integrity.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software failures, ensuring the infrastructure remains fully operational and resilient.
• Maintain documentation for all processes, configurations, and procedures to ensure knowledge-sharing and continuous improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of hands-on experience.
• Expertise in designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, and redundant on-premise systems architecture.
• Strong experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) and CI/CD practices using Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
• Skills in Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) and scripting languages like Python and Bash.
• Knowledge of Linux OS fundamentals, filesystem structure, networking, storage management, and virtualization (VMware, Nutanix).
• Experience with large-scale system deployments and troubleshooting infrastructure challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in on-premise infrastructure and cloud-based automation, with knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of security best practices, including secure secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana) for system insights and reliability.
• Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing resilient MongoDB architectures in production environments.
• Knowledge of Python-based web applications (e.g., Django) .
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a focus on troubleshooting, optimization, and improving data retention strategies.

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