Site Reliability Engineer, Linux (Remote) at Cisco
Frankfort, KY
$126,500–$182,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote, US-based Site Reliability Engineering role focused on Linux infrastructure at scale. The position centers on automating OS lifecycle management, migrating Ansible configuration from a monorepo into discrete repositories, and supporting a broader shift of workloads onto Kubernetes. Day-to-day work spans kernel-level debugging, container base image optimization, and embedding compliance requirements into infrastructure-as-code. Suits experienced Linux engineers comfortable with configuration management tooling and hybrid cloud environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,100–20,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is titled SRE and involves substantial infrastructure automation and tooling code (Python/Ruby/Ansible, Kubernetes migration, image creation pipelines), pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers. However, it also has a strong systems-operations dimension (managing 6,000 servers, OS configuration, patching, kernel-level debugging), which could support 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work described — writing automation, building tooling, migrating infrastructure-as-code — tips the balance to 15-1252.
Python and Ruby are listed as interchangeable options for the same scripting/automation requirement ('Python or Ruby'), so they are combined into one skill with Ruby as an alternative.
Go and C are listed as interchangeable systems-level language options under Preferred Qualifications, combined into one skill with C as an alternative.
FedRAMP and NIST are listed together as interchangeable compliance framework examples under Preferred Qualifications.
The degree requirement accepts equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree ('or equivalent related work experience'), so the degree requirement is set to None.
The posting notes the role may involve FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments and requires the candidate to be a U.S. Person; no formal security clearance is hard-gated, so the clearance requirement is None.
The base salary range of $126,500–$182,000/year reflects the general US/Canada range; higher state-specific ranges (e.g. NYC metro up to $252,000) are also listed in the posting.
The caller has declared this a fully-remote, nationally-pooled role; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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