Cisco Senior Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

638908205

Primary Responsibilities:

Developing new platforms and platform capabilities for Next Generation Firewall-Security Platforms

What You'll Do

• You will be responsible for developing new platform infrastructure and capabilities

for the Firepower Next-Gen Security Platforms.

• You’re an extremely motivated Lead Software Engineer and passionate about learning and contributing to the team and the business with "can do" attitude and stretch to finish the tasks much before the targets.

• Strong design/ programming ethic. Knowledge of designing large-scale systems in Scripting languages is helpful. Experience in Scripting is recommended. Additional experience on C programming is helpful.

• Dedication to Quality: Ability to ensure and commit to a higher standard of quality than usual in the face of time-to-market pressures.

• Strong OS fundamentals and networking concepts are a requirement.

• Good experience in networking and security systems

Participate in designing and developing of New/Existing Functionality in the Product

Ability to focus on deep internal aspects of the feature

Who You'll Work With

You will work with the young, energetic & dynamic security development team. You will also have to closely work with the TME's/ PM's to define strategies for further products. Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn.

Who You Are

This is a technical and individual contributor role that requires a strong background in software development and testing of complex systems, capability to address complex problems concerning firewall upgrades with network management, ability to work with multiple teams located in different time zones. Ideally you will have Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with about 8-12 years of proven experience.

You will contribute to the team in the following ways:

• Be familiar with waterfall and agile development methodologies. Daily activity will be based on agile.
• You will need a technical oriented perspective and must also see the requirements as needed by the customer. You must have a desire to either break or push functionality beyond what is specified and find loopholes in the modules
• Participate in the software development workflow, drive architectural meetings with cross team collaboration with the good quality by meeting the timelines.
• Assist in the software development process and workflow as it pertains to the use of source code management. This means being completely familiar and at ease with committing, reviewing, and branch management for the software under development as well as any automation that is crafted for the effort.
• Be willing to learn, adapt, and adopt new technologies as needed in the areas of hardware, software platforms, and development and test frameworks.

Experience Required:

• 8+ plus years of hands-on development experience in Linux, Python, Perl, shell, Go lang development skills.

• Strong scripting programming skills along with C programming is a plus

• Prior experience of writing framework for Upgrade / Downgrade of firewalls

• Good with writing distributed platforms and system software

• Deep understanding of Linux system and network concepts and writing independently using scripting languages.

• Strong analytical and logical solving skills

• Prior experience in leading platform development activities.

• Aptitude to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Highly Desired skills:

• Knowledge of Networking Products

• Experience and knowledge on -

• Basic knowledge on Routing & Switching and networking protocols.

• Hands on experience with Legitimate and Malware Application Traffic generator tools, Linux, Windows, Packet tracer, Wireshark, and tcpdump Tools

• Familiar with - Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet products preferred

• Strong automation background on python etc.

• Handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial mentorship

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Strong team-building skills. This role requires the ability to work across departments and with other teams

• Ability to continuous learning and committed to ongoing self-improvement.

• Ability to initiate and participate in organizational efforts to improve overall group productivity and effectiveness

• Prior experience of Upgrade / Downgrade of firewalls.

• Self-starter and pickup any technology and quickly come up with POCs to develop for the product.

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