Senior Technical Leader – Quality & Automation (Python, Kubernetes, Cloud)

Meet the Team The Cisco Common Platform Services (CCPS) organization is transforming how Cisco delivers cloud-scale SaaS by providing a modern, consistent, and secure platform foundation. Within CCPS, the Cloud Software & Solutions (CSS) group designs and develops enterprise OpenStack and Kubernetes platform solutions engineered for quality, stability, scale, and performance. We believe that world-class platform quality is achieved through teamwork, innovation, and psychological safety. You will serve as the technical authority for platform test engineering—shaping global test strategy, mentoring talented engineers, and building reusable automation frameworks that power important hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Your Impact

• Define end-to-end quality strategies, SLI/SLO benchmarks, and release readiness criteria across Kubernetes and OpenStack platform solutions.
• Develop, build, and scale modular, reusable test automation frameworks in Python , establishing coding standards and best practices across teams.
• Build automated suites for load, stress, scalability, endurance, failover, and chaos testing across distributed hybrid cloud platforms.
• metrics, logs, traces, profiles (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and OS-level evidence to isolate performance bottlenecks and drive fixes with development teams.
• Integrate repeatable test suites and statistical release criteria directly into active CI/CD pipelines.
• Coach engineers through architecture and code reviews, fostering a strong culture of automated testing excellence and shared platform ownership.

• Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have Skills): We are seeking 12+ years in Software Engineering, Platform Quality, or Reliability Engineering with proven experience in a Technical Lead or Architect capacity (Bachelor’s/master’s degree or equivalent practical experience welcomed) .

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