Cisco Expression Interest 

Australia, Western Australia, Perth 

510006346

Application Date Open from 29 April 2024 to 28 May 2024

Role Type - Full time

Our Senior Software Delivery Architects are the bridge between our customer’s challenges, and a working solution. As a leader, they are accountable for the successful translation of requirements into working delivered software. As an individual they are responsible for ensuing we deliver high quality software, documentation, and training to our customers. As a senior member of the team, they provide support at all stages of our lifecycle, including supporting proof-of-concepts through to resolving complex production issues.

• Provide program and project level technical leadership, as a trusted partner to the Program Manager and Customer Delivery Manager

• Architect, design and lead the delivery of complex software solutions to satisfy customer requirements

• Organising and running customer workshops, identifying and resolving differences and uncertainty

• Work independently to lead & coach a multifunctional team including developers, architects, testing leads, and specialist engineers.

• Support new customer opportunities by understanding their needs, developing a proposal and realistic plans, with clearly defined short-term and long-term success criteria

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders from customers and within Cisco

• Work with customers to gather detailed use cases and requirements spanning both business and technical domains

• Be the project design authority for software – responsible for scope control, technical decision making, and supporting with the identification and mitigation of technical risks, leveraging your software development skills

• Assist and guide the team in writing detailed functional specifications, and collaborate to design detailed data models with the development team

You’ll be joining our APJC Software and Automation team, part of the larger CX Technology Group, reporting to the ASEAN Practice Delivery Manager.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 - 15 years of experience with IT Infrastructure management and operations and technologies, heavily preferred in a SP, financial services, or industrial networking environment

• A minimum of 10 years of experience developing software applications using Python, Java and/or network automations using orchestration software

• Experience in leading project teams of 5 or more engineers

• Knowledge/experience in working with multiple industry standard CI/CD tools – Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, Artifactory, Jira, etc.

• A working knowledge of Information Security concepts, and experience with implementing security related automation.

• Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: MPLS, Segment Routing, EVPN, LISP.

• A practical understanding of standard and open framework models, such as ONAP, ETSI, and TM Forum models & APIs.

• Experience deploying and integrating Network Modeling tools such as Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine, Cisco WAE, Batfish, Forward Networks, etc.

• Knowledge of Cisco and Industry Cloud computing (i. e. Openstack, Kubernetes, AWS), Data Center, Virtualization, Storage and Networking solutions is very desirable

• Ability to solve complex problems creatively

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Good understanding of business processes and operations

Highly Desirable

• Knowledge of IETF standards and protocols such as NETCONF, YANG, BGP-LS, PCEP.

• Experience as a Senior or Lead Developer, leading small teams.

• Exposure to, or experience in, delivering pure advisory (non-hands on) engagements

• Good exposure to Scripting technologies (Python, Salt, Ansible)

• Exposure to products and technologies such as Cisco NSO, ESC, CVIM, BPA, NETConf, YANG, JSON, XML and REST

• Demonstrable experince in leading pre-sales activities, including simplifying and clarifying problem statements, creating a compelling long term plan, authoring and contributing to proposal and scoping documents, including customer contracts.