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.

The Site Reliability Engineering team focused on Observability is responsible for providing the tools, services, and infrastructure to monitor and observe the ThousandEyes platform. Leveraging cloud native tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and even ThousandEyes itself, we enable our developers to instrument, analyze, and monitor their applications. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer in this role will work together with the team to own our logging pipeline and monitoring stack while working with developers to continuously improve our view of the platform.

• Design and implement visibility into our platform as we grow to multi-region scale.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud native monitoring services in AWS and GCP that are elastic and resilient to failure.
• Provide standards and best practices for instrumentation of container based services and cloud managed services.
• Maintain our alerting pipeline so that we are notified of the right things, at the right time, in the right places.
• Drive automation wherever possible, enabling our monitoring platforms to scale effortlessly. Think self service.
• Participate in and contribute to improve our 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of modern logging tool sets, including Logstash or Fluentd.
• Understanding of Prometheus and it’s ecosystem, including Alertmanager.
• Good knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring tools and crash reporting tools, such as Sentry.
• Good knowledge of cloud provider managed services, and how they can be leveraged in our context.
• Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.

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