Laboratory Engineer
Cisco · San Jose, CA · Product and Engineering
About this role
Cisco is hiring a mid-level Infrastructure Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Terraform, Ansible, Git, VMware. Compensation is listed at $137,400–$186,700 per year.
- Role
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Department
- Product and Engineering
- Posted
- May 12, 2026
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Job description
from Cisco careersJob posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the team:We are looking for a dedicated Infrastructure and lab engineer to help improve and maintain our large fleet of systems. This person will be responsible for all infrastructure at various levels on the Lab/QA/Build Infrastructure team.
Your Impact:We’re seeking a hands-on Datacenter Lab & Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in VMware administration to build, maintain, and optimize our on-prem lab environments. You’ll manage ESXi hosts, vCenter, virtual networking/storage configurations, and ensure reliable operation of lab workloads—while also supporting and troubleshooting local hardware (servers, storage, and network devices).
Administer and maintain VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi hosts), including cluster configuration, resource pools, DRS/HA, VM lifecycle management, and performance tuning.
Configure VMware virtual networking (vSwitches, Distributed vSwitches, port groups, VLANs) and virtual storage (datastores, VMFS/NFS/iSCSI).
Deploy, snapshot, clone, and migrate VMs; maintain templates, baselines, and patch compliance.
Monitor capacity, performance, and health across compute, storage, and virtualization layers; remediate issues proactively.
Support local hardware: rack/stack servers, cable management, disk/SSD replacements, NIC/HBA swaps, RMA coordination, and firmware/BIOS updates.
An on-call/rotation for lab incidents and scheduled maintenance windows.
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