About this role

Cisco is hiring a mid-level Professional Services Consultant based in Krakow, Poland. The posting calls out experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes.

Role: Professional Services Consultant
Function: services
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Krakow, Poland
Department: Customer Experience
Posted: Jun 30, 2026

Job description

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Meet the Team

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technologies, Cilium and Tetragon, are the choice of numerous, industry-leading, global organizations.

We believe in fostering an inclusive workplace where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered. We believe that every employee contributes to our success, and we are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can thrive. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission to deliver exceptional products and services.

Your Impact

As a Customer Reliability Engineer (CRE), you are the tip of the spear in interacting with our customers. Our CRE team adapts the best practices of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and applies them to our customers. This role is focused on bringing this practice to the Isovalent software suite of products running on-premises and in major cloud providers on Kubernetes.

As part of the role, you will gain a deep understanding of our customers, their architecture down into their various configurations. You will work with various stakeholders, internally and externally to provide world class support and issue resolution to various incidents and enhance our organization’s view into the health of our various customers.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of direct experience supporting and engaging with enterprise customers in a technical capacity.
Experience securing operating system (OS) instances, applications, and/or distributed systems
Experience in operating Linux systems
Experience managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Demonstrated expertise in networking concepts and technologies across OSI layers 2 through 7.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of standard methodologies for Linux operating systems security and their application in cloud-native technologies and environments
Evidence of direct experience using network troubleshooting tools, including but not limited to packet capture and analysis utilities
At least 2+ years of experience acting as a higher escalation point across multiple products lines
Experience resolving issues with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies in small to medium size Kubernetes environments
Prior professional experience with Container Networking Interfaces (CNI) including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
Knowledge of Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) practices, including Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), Customer Test Environments (CuTEs), tooling, monitoring, knowledge base creation, and retrospectives.
Hands-on experience with Terraform for deployment of infrastructure resources

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.