Site Reliability Engineer, Firmware Tools Engineer (Meraki)

Company: Cisco
Location: Rockville
Posted on: June 14, 2022

Job Description:

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We're making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.
The Developer Tools team at Meraki engineers tools, automation and processes that facilitate developers' efficiency. We support the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including core developer tools and environments, build tools, code review, identity management, source version control, artifact management, CI/CD pipelines, education, and documentation. Our customers are all engineers at Meraki.

We believe tools magnify our impact, multiply our collaboration, and free us to move fast. We take pride in creating a simple and powerful environment where engineers can easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products. We are passionate about building automated tools and extensible frameworks that facilitate the entire development and release lifecycle.

As a Firmware Tools Engineer you will work closely with firmware development teams to enable their best work. Reliability, performance and developer experience are critical factors to our CI/CD pipelines which you will help monitor, operate, and improve.

As SREs at Meraki we are responsible for building and scaling the cloud that supports millions of Meraki devices across the world. Meraki's customer base has grown by a factor of 2-3 every year, serving more than 4 billion HTTP requests per day across eight data centres. Our customers depend on our products to run their critical infrastructure of network switches, security appliances, wireless APs and security cameras. We embrace the *nix way, automate away tedious tasks and build infrastructure as code.*

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**

- Implement tools and processes to continuously improve our build and delivery velocity, reliability and efficiency.

- Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company.
- Practice sustainable incident response (on call rotation) and blameless postmortems
- Influence and drive operational excellence and best practices within the organization.

**YOU ARE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE IF YOU:**

- Familiar with scripting or coding languages like Ruby, Scala, Python.

- Experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.
- Experience with modern CI/CD systems and processes.
- Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
- A deep passion for SRE/DevOps and running highly resilient/automated systems is a plus.
- onus: Familiarity with Yocto, cmake, make, or autoconf.

Keywords: Site Reliability Engineering, Developer Tools, Developer Efficiency, Software Engineering, Jenkins, Artifactory

Cisco requires all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated or have an approved religious or medical accommodation. Candidates accepting an offer must provide proof of vaccination status on their first day. If someone anticipates requesting an accommodation for this requirement, they must receive approval before the start date. Candidates receiving an offer will receive additional information about the accommodation process at the time of the offer. All offers of employment are contingent upon complying with Cisco's vaccination policy.

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.

At Cisco Meraki, we don't just accept difference - it's one of our key values. Everybody In means we listen to each other's opinions. Everybody is accepted and valued here, and we are a team that works as one towards our goals. We recognize that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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