Site Reliability Engineering Spotlight: Powering Our Platform to Support Our Customers

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Duo Security is now part of the largest enterprise cybersecurity organization, Cisco Secure. We’re actively seeking both back-end and front-end developer and software engineering talent to help expand our reach even further. Duo’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is particularly experiencing an increase in demand, in direct proportion with both technical advancements and Cisco’s overhead expansion of cybersecurity investment. 

Back in 2018, Cisco’s procurement teams made massive strides within the cybersecurity industry by way of multi-billion dollar purchase and acquisition agreements with cybersecurity companies like Duo Security and Umbrella. Today, modern security solutions like zero trust, Secure Access Service Edge and extended detection and response are evolving rapidly within Cisco Secure. As a result, there’s an imminent need for more front-end representation.

By bolstering consumer accessibility (for example, ensuring the websites are working as effectively as they should), SREs at Duo play a vital role in keeping the world safe. The SRE team is a diverse, collaborative work environment that empowers its engineers both inside and outside of the workplace. In this post, we’ll introduce you to some of our SREs.

Laura Garza, Deepak Bhaskaran and Sanket Gajjar from Duo’s Site Reliability Engineering team

Laura Garza is a nature-lover, wife, dog mom and SRE at Duo. She explains how her job at Duo has empowered her as a changemaker not just within the industry, but also as a woman. Even with a large enterprise overhead, she feels that Duo’s people-focused ethos has been anything but swallowed. Speaking to this feeling of empowerment within the company, Laura says her pride lies mainly in the fact that “Duo [and] Cisco Secure makes a difference; they ‘do good’ [for people].” 

Women who work in traditionally male-dominated industries often face unique roadblocks. While not exclusive to information security, underrepresented groups in engineering are often othered. They feel unwelcome, confront biases, and rar

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