Key skills
CloudDistributed SystemsLinuxPythonRubyUnixLeadershipMentoring
About this role
Role Overview
- architect, build, and evolve the developer experience for Meraki's Cloud Engineering teams.
- work within a team distributed across the US and UK and collaborate with other teams across SRE and Cloud Engineering.
- shape the day to day operations of Meraki's cloud, and enable engineers to easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products!
- Lead the design and evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying cloud applications.
- Take the lead on complex problem resolution and debugging of internal and vendor-supplied tools.
- Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization.
- Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them.
- Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, reporting on productivity gains and platform health to the SVP level.
- Lead complex troubleshooting, perform blameless postmortems, and champion sustainable on-call practices across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience
- Have a software development background with 5+ years experience coding with languages like Ruby or Python.
- Rapid technical adoption experience, evaluating and adopting new technologies with quick turnaround to address critical production gaps or security vulnerabilities.
- Experience mentoring and providing technical oversight for a team
- Experience with systems at scale, managing and operating distributed systems at a scale of 1,000+ nodes or high-concurrency environments with an owner/operator mindset.
- Automation experience in configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation.
- Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- Linux
- Python
- Ruby
- Unix
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
- flexible vacation time off program
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- additional paid time away may be requested
- optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer