As a key member of Cisco IOS XR Platform Independent Software Development team, you will:
Collaborate with account teams, product management, other engineering team, architect and design sophisticated product requirements/challenges.
Demonstrate strong technical leadership via innovative solutions to customer problems including successful deployment.
Partner with other senior architects across Cisco on new opportunities and broad initiatives.
Be in the forefront of development of complex projects, working with managers for detailed planning and execution strategy, identify intermediate, well-defined achievements.
Act as a mentor and develop strong technical talent, leading towards development of long-term expertise, technical competency.
Do innovation within the team and chip in to Cisco’s intellectual property.
Strengthen product quality by identifying hot spots and deriving solution for the same.
Keep up to date with technology trends relevant to the group, adopt newer technologies and rapid prototyping to demonstrate.
Minimum Qualifications
BE/B.Tech or higher degree in CS/EC or equivalent with 18+ years in the networking or equivalent domains
An accomplished technical leader with experience in building resilient, scalable, and secure platforms using opensource and commercial software
Extensive experience in architecting and design of complex networking systems and various software engineering principles
In-depth knowledge and understanding of routing and switching technologies, including SR, SRv6, EVPN, MPLS, VXLAN, various L2/L3 protocols
Expert and experience in C/C++, Python, Linux system programming, process and memory management, multithreading
Preferred Qualifications
You believe in codifying and automation (infra as code) and have the approach that anything is possible till validated otherwise
You are willing to explore unknowns quickly, be a sounding board and dependable consultant on wide range of product ideas
Experience with kernel programming and open-source technologies is a plus