Customer Reliability Engineer, Hypershield (remote)
Cisco • Chicago, IL • Posted July 06, 2026
Position Overview
The application window is expected to close on: 07/31/2026
**Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received** .
**Meet the Team**
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, was founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, and builds open-source software and enterprise solutions for the networking, security, and observability needs of modern infrastructure.
The Customer Reliability Engineering team is the deep technical escalation tier for Cisco Hypershield on the Cisco Nexus N9300 Series Smart Switches. The team owns the hardest break/fix and reliability cases escalated by Cisco TAC, applying Site Reliability Engineering practices across the full stack: the data-center fabric and the on-premises Kubernetes controller that manages the security policy enforced on it. The work demands methodical diagnosis, composure under incident pressure, and the ability to operate at the seam between customer environme...
**Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received** .
**Meet the Team**
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, was founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, and builds open-source software and enterprise solutions for the networking, security, and observability needs of modern infrastructure.
The Customer Reliability Engineering team is the deep technical escalation tier for Cisco Hypershield on the Cisco Nexus N9300 Series Smart Switches. The team owns the hardest break/fix and reliability cases escalated by Cisco TAC, applying Site Reliability Engineering practices across the full stack: the data-center fabric and the on-premises Kubernetes controller that manages the security policy enforced on it. The work demands methodical diagnosis, composure under incident pressure, and the ability to operate at the seam between customer environme...