Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences. ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios. About the Role As the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Network Assurance Data Platform you will play a critical role in shaping and executing our cloud and big data, ML/AI infrastructure strategy, driving operational excellence, and ensuring the highest levels of system reliability and security. You will lead teams of talented engineers and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software development, operations, and security, to design, build, and maintain our infrastructure, cloud platforms, and security practices, operating at a multi-region scale. What Youll Do • Lead and inspire a talented team of site reliability engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in development and operation of infrastructure platforms • Drive the strategic vision for the development, implementation, and management of cloud, data, ML/AI platforms. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, product management, and security to define and implement reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure platforms • Provide oversight and direction in the development and operation of cloud platforms, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and reliable solutions that meet customer needs • Drive operational excellence in operations and security processes • Mentor and develop engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the site reliability engineering group Qualifications • You have a deep understanding of the distributed systems design, cloud technology and their components, dependencies, and code that define infrastructure • You possess a deep understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts • Extensive hands-on experience building cloud, big data and/or ML/AI infrastructure (e.g. EMR, Airflow, Comet ML, AWS SageMaker, Spark, etc) • Extensive hands-on experience operating mission-critical services in production environments which are required to have high availability and reliability. • Proven ability to think strategically and align technical initiatives with business objectives • Can provide a strong technical vision for your teams and ensure consistent delivery of objectives • Have experience formulating a teams technical strategy and roadmap; youve collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams to execute shared goals • Understand how to balance tactical needs with strategic growth and quality-based initiatives that can span multiple quarters • Proven site reliability engineering management experience leading multiple teams Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. Thats why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if youre interested in this work. Cisco is an Affirmative Action and 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. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.