Graduate Cloud Engineer – UK
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Position Overview & Specifications
What You'll Do As a Cloud Engineer within the Webex Cloud Native Platform organization, you will work with teams that build robust, highly available and stable platform services to host 100s of backend services. You will shape our next-gen, provider-agnostic, auto-scaled platform that ensures service availability and quality whilst facilitating high change velocity!
The role will involve:
Learning state-of-the-art cloud native technologies
- Extending the Kubernetes ecosystem at Webex
- Hands-off continuous integration and deployment
- Detection and auto-remediation to achieve > 99.99% of service uptime
- Tuning applications to perform at scale
- Working with distributed systems and security
- Complex problem solving
You will get the opportunity to use and improve open-source Cloud Native technologies to make an impact at Webex. Periodically take part in on-call support to investigate and remediate incidents that may be experienced by other teams that rely on our platform services.
Who You'll Work With Webex is redefining the future of collaboration. We are creating a world where people come together easily on their own terms and with no limitations on device, location, time, or distance. Our group builds innovative collaboration technologies, deployed daily to numerous data centres around the world. Cloud Native Platform engineering group is a global, fun, passionate and upbeat team with a mission to build, run and improve the underpinning platform services which make our offering the best-in-class collaboration services possible, at an outstanding scale.
Who You Are You are an enthusiastic and highly driven engineer who can multitask, quickly learn new technologies and see solutions and issues through to the end. You are also able to work across software development, quality assurance, operations, and support.
Required Skills
- Ability and the passion to learn new things quickly
- Experience with Unix systems and command tools
- Experience with some programming languages e.g.Python
Desired Technical Skills
- Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience in Micro Service Architecture
- Service Mesh (Istio, Traefik, Linkerd)
- Experience with security and secure engineering practices
- Working with Logs and Metrics Stacks
- Other CNCF technologies and programming languages (Go, Groovy)
Experience/Qualification You have earned a degree with high academic achievements at a university and are able to demonstrate your passion for technology.
Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference because we believe that inspired people can make anything happen. That is probably why we were ranked #1 in World's Best Workplace in both 2019 and 2020. We have a culture of recognition and believe that flexibility in the workplace is the key to a good work-life balance.
What we offer you
- A competitive salary and bonus scheme
- A flexible working environment and hours
- Excellent benefits like private health and dental insurance, cycle to work scheme
- Birthday day off – because you deserve it
- Continuous learning through training programs and stretch assignments
- Passionate colleagues who are motivated to solve complex problems
- A fun community with regular social activities like board games, tennis, football, movie nights...
- Freedom to explore, extend and contribute to Cloud Native technologies
- To participate and coordinate events like hackathons
- Opportunities to present excellent engineering work in internal and public forums
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire salaries in U.S. locations. For non-sales roles, the hiring ranges reflect base salary and do not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive target, and do not include equity or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Graduate Cloud Engineer – UK roles across Cisco Systems's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Enterprise Software & Network Solutions.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked Salary Disclosed on Application bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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