Engineering Manager- Cloud Operations- Fedramp

Role details

The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026 This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. Meet the Team The Webex Contact Center FedRAMP team builds and operates secure, reliable cloud services for U.S. government customers. We partner closely with application engineering, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to support the Webex for Government environment and deliver services that meet strict availability and control requirements. The team is made up of cloud operations, platform, and security-minded engineers who thrive in a highly regulated, high-visibility environment. What’s exciting about this team is the opportunity to improve reliability and automation at scale while helping power mission-critical services for government users. Your Impact As a Manager of Cloud Operations Engineering, you will lead a team of Cloud Engineers, DevOps, Infrastructure Operations Engineers and Systems Administrators, helping them grow while building a culture focused on reliability and continuous improvement. You'll support your team through day-to-day challenges, mentor them in infrastructure technologies and best practices, and help them develop their careers. You'll oversee the operations and maintenance of cloud-based, hybrid, and data centre infrastructure, working with your team to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and keep systems running smoothly. You'll collaborate across the organization with platform, security, and application teams to solve complex infrastructure problems and align on priorities. On the engineering side, you'll champion automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to reduce manual operational work, help streamline deployment and operational workflows, and support your team in adopting modern DevOps and cloud operations best practices. You'll also help establish clear communication during incidents and work with stakeholders to keep everyone informed on system status and technical updates. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 8 years of relevant experience in cloud operations or DevOps engineering, with 3+ years in a team lead or supervisory role, OR Master's degree plus 6 years of experience with 2+ year in a leadership capacity 2+ years of experience leading/supervising technical teams (e.g., cloud operations, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure operations) including mentoring and performance management. Experience operating production cloud/hybrid environments and leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions in a 24x7 setting. Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code for infrastructure deployments and operational workflows (e.g., Terraform or comparable tooling). Experience working with security/compliance to support FedRAMP and/or NIST 800-53 and/or SOC 2-aligned environments. Preferred Qualifications Experience directly leading multidisciplinary cloud teams (e.g., cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or SRE specialists), including mentoring and performance management. Experience operating AWS infrastructure including Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code solutions. Hands-on automation tooling experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Python, shell scripting, or comparable technologies. Knowledge of FedRAMP continuous monitoring and related security/compliance practices, including vulnerability remediation, audit evidence, incident reporting, and maintaining an authorized system boundary. Experience owning operational readiness and high-severity processes, including on-call rotation management (e.g., PagerDuty), and defining runbooks/monitoring/support models/onboarding standards. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $166,300.00 to $238,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1