If you’re passionate about building scalable cloud solutions and want to work with one of the world’s leading technology companies, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Cisco is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Milpitas, California, offering a competitive salary of up to $174,000 per year. This role provides the chance to work on innovative cloud infrastructure, automation, and enterprise-scale technologies while collaborating with talented teams to shape the future of networking and cloud computing.
Job Overview
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Company Name | Cisco |
| Role | Cloud Engineer |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) |
| Job Location | Milpitas, California, USA |
| Salary | Up to $174,000 per year (based on experience and qualifications) |
| Work Type | Hybrid / On-site (as specified by Cisco) |
| Job Type | Full-Time |
| Job Level | Entry Level to Senior-Level |
| Industry | Information Technology, Networking, Cloud Computing |
Job Description
The team is made up of builders and problem-solvers who enjoy tackling complex distributed systems challenges while supporting highly scalable, resilient, and observable services in production. What makes this team especially exciting is the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud engineering, cybersecurity, automation, and AI-assisted development while directly influencing products used by some of the world’s largest organizations.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support cloud-native SaaS applications and services.
- Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems using microservices architecture.
- Develop and operate services running in public cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Cisco Private Cloud
- Participate in the design and implementation of service automation, monitoring, observability, and telemetry pipelines.
- Analyze service health, performance metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to improve reliability and customer experience.
- Own services through the full lifecycle, from design and implementation to production support and continuous improvement.
- Work on deployment, configuration, and operational readiness for SaaS services in production environments.
- Review architecture, designs, implementation plans, test strategies, and operational procedures.
- Troubleshoot complex production and customer issues across application, infrastructure, database, and networking layers.
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, security, SRE, DevOps, and customer-facing teams.
- Contribute to building secure, scalable, and reliable business solutions for Cisco customers and partners.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 – 2 years of professional software engineering experience in product engineering, SaaS, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering environment.
- Hands-on experience developing, testing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based applications or services in at least one public cloud environment such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience building rich web UIs in full stack technologies, services, such as Java, Ruby on Rails/NodeJS, React, JavaScript.
- Experience with cloud-native application development, including containers, service deployment, scalability, resiliency, and production readiness.
- Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across application, service, and cloud infrastructure layers.
- Experience using Generative AI tools to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, or operational workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of assigned features or components, and collaborate effectively in an Agile engineering team.
- Familiarity with software engineering practices such as code review, unit testing, integration testing, source control, CI/CD, secure coding, and maintainable design.
- Exposure to observability tools and practices, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service health analysis.
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, identity, access control, RBAC, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Exposure to incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, or reliability improvement practices.
Selection Process
- Online Application
- Resume Screening
- Recruiter Screening Call
- Technical Assessment or Coding Interview
- Technical Interview(s)
- Hiring Manager Interview
- HR Discussion
- Offer Letter and Background Verification
How to Apply
- Visit the official Cisco Careers website.
- Search for the Cloud Engineer position in Milpitas, California.
- Review the job description and eligibility requirements.
- Click the Apply button.
- Sign in or create a Cisco Careers account.
- Complete the online application form.
- Upload your updated resume and any required documents.
- Submit your application and monitor your email for further updates from the recruitment team.
