Cisco Software Engineer/Architect 

United Kingdom, England, London 

252760958

Your Impact:

The Engineering Architect will oversee the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions that support demo automation and related platforms. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the product owner and content developers as key stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure the software solutions effectively address them. You will take full ownership of the development process, ensuring compliance with dCloud’s best practices and standards. Additionally, you will manage the development support process, which includes reporting, handling escalations, and facilitating communication. As the first point of contact for escalations, you will promptly notify and coordinate with the appropriate engineers to resolve issues efficiently.

Software Engineer Architect

Identify and prioritize all project-related tasks. Ability to organize, strategize, and communicate project goals, objectives, and tasks at all levels of the organization. The Engineering Architect will be responsible for effectively reporting status on all projects.

Design, develop, document, and maintain a large variety of content, mainly but not limited to demo automation. This will require meeting with content developers, extracting requirements, and helping to create designs conducive to content objectives. Engineers will be responsible for creating and maintaining a library that can be utilized by internal and other developers. Engineers will draft, test, and troubleshoot their work and automation solutions. Provide schematics as required of design concepts aiding in the build and troubleshooting of customer demonstrations.

Properly document and plan all projects prior to entering the build phase. The candidate must be well-versed in the use of standard design templates and tools (Git, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project). The candidate will be required to justify all designs in front of a working peer group.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
• 7+ years’ experience in a software engineering role or environment
• Experience developing and deploying scalable solutions (distributed systems) in both on-premise and public cloud environments
• Proficiency in Go and Python; Java, Kotlin and/or JavaScript
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Containers, and Helm

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or equivalent tools
• Hands-on experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) to automate builds, tests, and deployments across enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience with AWS; GCP and/or Azure is a strong plus
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to both business and technical audiences with brevity and clarity
• Experience with vSphere or other virtual computing solutions (Nutanix, etc.) as well as virtual storage.
  

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