Cisco Early Career 

United Kingdom, England, London 

551612449

Early in Career Cloud Native Platform Engineer

What You'll Do

As a Cloud Engineer within the Webex Cloud Native Platform organization, you will work with teams that build robust, highly available and stable platform services to host 100s of backend services. You will shape our next-gen, provider-agnostic, auto-scaled platform that ensures service availability and quality whilst facilitating high change velocity!

The role will involve:

• Learning state-of-the-art cloud native technologies

• Extending the Kubernetes ecosystem at Webex

• Hands-off continuous integration and deployment

• Detection and auto-remediation to achieve > 99.99% of service uptime

• Tuning applications to perform at scale

• Working with distributed systems and security

• Complex problem solving

You will get the opportunity to use and improve open-source Cloud Native technologies to make an impact at Webex. Periodically take part in on-call support to investigate and remediate incidents that may be experienced by other teams that rely on our platform services.

Who You'll Work With

Webex is redefining the future of collaboration. We are creating a world where people come together easily on their own terms and with no limitations on device, location, time, or distance. Our group builds innovative collaboration technologies, deployed daily to numerous data centres around the world.

Cloud Native Platform engineering group is a global, fun, passionate and upbeat team with a mission to build, run and improve the underpinning platform services which make our offering the best-in-class collaboration services possible, at an outstanding scale.

Who You Are

You are an enthusiastic and highly driven engineer who can multitask, quickly learn new technologies and see solutions and issues through to the end. You are also able to work across software development, quality assurance, operations, and support.

Required Skills

• Ability and the passion to learn new things quickly

• Experience with Unix systems and command tools

• Experience with some programming languages e.g. Python

Desired Technical Skills

• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience in Micro Service Architecture

• Service Mesh (Istio, Traefik, Linkerd)

• Experience with security and secure engineering practices

• Working with Logs and Metrics Stacks

• Other CNCF technologies and programming languages (Go, Groovy)

Experience/Qualification

A STEM related degree at a university or other any relevant qualifications (Certifications/ BootCamp) and are able to demonstrate your passion for technology.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference because we believe that inspired people can make anything happen. That is probably why we were ranked #1 in World's Best Workplace in both 2019 and 2020. We have a culture of recognition and believe that flexibility in the workplace is the key to a good work-life balance.

What we offer you

• A competitive salary and bonus scheme

• A flexible working environment and hours

• Excellent benefits like private health and dental insurance, cycle to work scheme

• Birthday day off – because you deserve it

• Continuous learning through training programs and stretch assignments

• Passionate colleagues who are motivated to solve complex problems

• A fun community with regular social activities like board games, tennis, football, movie nights...

• Freedom to explore, extend and contribute to Cloud Native technologies

• To participate and coordinate events like hackathons

• Opportunities to present excellent engineering work in internal and public forums

Start date: August 2024 (can be negotiated depending on your current study and availability)