Jenkins DevOps Engineer

: What You'll Do

• Assist with the migration of legacy Jenkins installations into modern Kubernetes environments
• Work with operations to improve service stability, resiliency, and performance of a fleet of Jenkins instances across a mix of Docker and Kubernetes installation environments
• Assess and improve the security posture our of Jenkins installations using knowledge of vendor (CloudBees) and community defined security best-practices and required controls dictated by Cisco
• Work with the operations support team as a Jenkins subject matter expert to answer customer inquiries, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide effective solutions to issues with their build environments
• Develop and maintain Jenkins operations documentation, including troubleshooting guides, knowledge base articles, and best practices

Who You'll Work With The DevOps team at Cisco is a fast-paced group that is working to modernize and evolve development workflows in Cisco with modern, cloud-native tools and processes.A small team of motivated engineers who embrace new technologies, both vendor supported and open source tools and frameworks. The team is fun loving, supportive of their peers, and operate in a truly agile fashion with daily scrums and sprint/release planning, all with a "customers come first" demeanor. They are responsible for services providing build, artifact, code quality and source code management in a common development platform to provide Cisco developers with the best service, support, and experience possible. Who You Are The ideal candidate is self-motivated with an interest and focus on automation and is excited to be a part of an innovative, collaborative, and ever-evolving development and operations team. We are looking for someone with experience deploying and administrating Jenkins running on cloud platforms and to help with development, maintenance, and support of their enterprise-scale Jenkins service deployed in Cisco managed Kubernetes clusters Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5 plus years of software development experience.
• Proficiency administrating Jenkins CI with a deep understanding of key concepts such as agent management, Jenkins files, and the plugin system
• Experience developing with Python and Java
• Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux command line

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with Enterprise Licensed CloudBees Jenkins
• Experience with self-managed on-prem Kubernetes Clusters
• Experience installing and administrating Kubernetes.
• Experience with binary management systems, JFrog Artifactory or Nexus preferred.
• Experience with Python and Bash scripting.

Why Cisco? #WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you! Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise. We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that). We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.