Cisco Software Engineering Technical Leader 

United States, North Carolina, Cary 

517865947

You will be responsible for designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, and 8000 platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximising the right technical expertise and skills in each area. You will design and develop innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results. Your role involves driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes. You will proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning. Additionally, you will reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution reports and technical whitepapers, and collaborate with teams across multiple continents.

As a senior member of this team, you will work with a tight knit, highly skilled team that demonstrates an aptitude and appetite for learning new technologies, evidenced by the ability to expand upon core knowledge. Our engineers are passionate about what they do and go above and beyond to assist not just the customer, but also their teammates and peers. “Work hard, play harder” is the motto of the team. The team is a good mix of engineers with varying years of experience (from 3 years all the way to 20+years) in Cisco technologies and solutions, and each-and-every-one of them bring phenomenal value to the table. Our team has global presence located in US, Canada and India centers.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 8 years of professional experience or Master’s Degree in Computer Science with 6 years of professional experience
• Experience in Networking Automation and Software Quality Assurance, protocol testing, and supporting Web/Service-provider customers
• Experience in Routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture and networking technologies
• Expertise using Python or GoLang

• Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center)
• Experience on the following platforms: ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000
• Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API
• Background in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework and Cisco NSO
• Exposure in CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu UNIX/Linux and expertise on Bash/Unix Shell Scripting
• Experience in configuration/troubleshooting Protocols: ISIS/OSPF, BGP, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, SegmentRouting, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).