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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Meet the Team

The Splunk TechOps organization runs Splunk Cloud, blending SRE, Systems Engineering, and Service Engineering disciplines across functional global teams. We are a team striving for operational awesomeness and trying to automate the world. We empower our customers to execute our vision of making machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. In this role, you will use your cloud experience to drive the growth of Splunk Cloud while working with major industry vendors.

Your Impact

As a TechOps SRE, you will help maintain, contribute to, and improve the next generation of our large-scale Cloud offering. You will be responsible for the infrastructure that powers Splunk’s cloud services, moving tasks from small one-off implementations to massive scale across thousands of machines. You will be a data-driven decision-maker, ensuring that we are alerted to issues before our customers notice and constantly seeking ways to automate manual processes. Candidates that are humble, hungry to learn, and skilled will thrive in this role.

You will:

+ Own the maintenance and improvement of Splunk’s large-scale Cloud infrastructure.

+ Automate every manual process and tedious taskencounteredtooptimizesystem performance.

+ Work across global teams to ensure operational excellence and system reliability.

+ Collaborate with peers from engineering, product management, and customer support in a stable, supportive environment.

+ Actively take responsibility for projects and contribute to a culture of honesty and open communication.

+ Benefit from mentorship opportunities and continuous professional development

Minimum Qualifications

+ Operational experience at scale with hands-on experiencewith Linuxoperating systems, cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)and networking.

+ Experience with architecture, deployments, and networking in one or more major cloud vendors.

+ Development skills in at least one language, such asPython,ShellorGo.

+ Familiarity with basic programming concepts, including input sanitization and unit testing.

+ A data-driven approach to decision-making and a passion for monitoring and feedback loops.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Previousexperience in roles such as Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, or DevOps Engineer.

+ Experience working in Observability/infrastructure teams as a Splunk adminincluding distributed systems at scaleandobservabilitytools.

+ Experience working on distributed systems and a passion for finding edge cases that appearatscale.

+ A strong mindset for automation and the ability to bring small tasks to large-scale implementation.

+ Experience working with open-source projects and a desire to contribute back to the community.

+ Ability to balance high-level engineering goals with a healthy work-life commitment.

**Why Cisco?**

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

**Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:**

The starting salary range posted for this position is $126,500.00 to $182,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

+ 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

+ 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

+ Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

+ Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

+ 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

+ Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

+ Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

+ .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

+ 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

+ 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

+ Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$152,500.00 - $252,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$135,800.00 - $224,400.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

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.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.