Lead Software Engineer, Dashboard Build, Remote in the U.S.

Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the architecture and design of build and deploy systems that meet stringent security and compliance requirements for federal and defense customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and technical direction to design, implement, and operate build and deploy systems, to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements, with a focus on scalability, availability, product quality, and developer experience
• Translate security and compliance requirements into implementation: access control, audit logging, secret management, vulnerability response, and evidence collection
• Work closely with product engineering teams to monitor and maintain build health and accuracy
• Collaborate with the SRE team to ensure scalability and availability of build systems
• Prevent, predict, and respond to issues, coordinating the triage and remediation efforts across the product teams
• Lead by example through production code, design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, debugging, and operational improvements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree combined with 8 years of experience in development, build, and release engineering or computer science, or Master's Degree, combined with 6 years of related experience, or PhD, combined with 3 years of similar experience
• Experience with the development and configuration of modular build/deploy systems and source control tools for CI/CD (such as Jenkins, GitLab, TeamCity, GitHub, Buildkite, CircleCI, and/or RWX) with knowledge of scripting languages (such as Shell, Groovy, Ruby, or Python)
• Experience with the use of containers in a build environment, and tools such as AWS, Artifactory, Docker, and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React toolchains and pipelines
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec pipelines
• Experience with FedRAMP Moderate/High, DoD IL4/IL5, FISMA, GovRAMP (formerly StateRAMP), or similar regulated environments
• Experience with database maintenance and migrations in production environments
• Experience with data collection, parsing, and visualization tools such as the Elastic Stack and Grafana
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (such as Rspec, Jest, Cypress, or similar frameworks)
• Experience leading technical projects or providing technical direction across a team