Drive technical leadership on architecture, platform design, and major engineering decisions. Establish and promote SRE/ SWE standard methodologies for how the team builds, operates, monitors, and improves services. Lead Splunk administration for the team’s internal logs and telemetry platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Leverage AI automation & agentic solution to reduce manual toil. Help to set technical direction for reliability, scalability, and platform evolution, and guide the team in making sound engineering trade-offs. Mentor engineers and influence technical execution through effective design reviews, operational discipline, and engineering leadership. Minimum Qualifications. Bachelors 8 years of related experience, or Masters 6 years of related experience, or PhD 3 years of related experience. Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, platform engineering, or observability-focused infrastructure roles. Experience with a mix of Splunk (or similar products), Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Go. Lang, Infrastructure as Code (Ia. C), Terraform, Puppet, CI/ CD, Git, DevOps or SRE concepts. Experience working with cloud infrastructure and services, with a strong understanding of modern platform architecture and distributed systems operations. Experience driving automation to reduce operational toil and improve platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude, Codex, or similar technologies to improve productivity, automation, and operational workflows. Excellent communication skills and a history of collaborating effectively with multi-functional teams. Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder as the team has responsibilities in FedRAMP environments. Preferred Qualifications. Splunk (or similar products) admin experience. Experience working within developer platforms or infrastructure platform teams. Experience serving as a technical leader at the team or project level, including guiding design decisions and driving execution. Bachelors 12 years of related experience, or Masters 10 years of related experience, or PhD 6 years of related experience. Experience supporting large-scale, distributed, or business-critical systems. This is a remote role, but if you happen to live near a Splunk / Cisco office, you're welcome to work from the office as often as desired.