Cisco Partner Account Manager 

Belgium, Flemish Brabant 

569934819

Your Impact

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will manage a group of engineers, technical leads and collaborate extensively with other engineering managers across geography. You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

In this role you will:

• Manage at least 5-8 full time employees responsible to design and develop high quality networking products.
• Lead and own the development, and deployment of software solutions leveraging SONiC to interface with hardware infrastructure and platform-level components. Own delivery milestone and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions and expose hardware capabilities through SONiC interfaces.
• Actively participate in the system architecture and design discussions.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between software, hardware, QA, and systems integration teams.
• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align deliverables with business objectives.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.
• Act as a key liaison with open-source SONiC communities, contributing to upstream development and leveraging community innovations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Around 18-20 years of work experience with minimum 5 years of hands on management experience. You have managed at least 5-8 full time employees.Good in hiring and retaining top talents across grades.
• You are an experienced leader with a successful track record of leading product teams responsible to design and develop high quality networking products. Involved in performance evaluation, salary planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, NPU, BMC, Optics and network OS development.Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar
• Experience leading teams or technical projects in a complex development environment. Extensive software development experience with Linux based platforms or other like network operating systems such as SONiC.
• Enjoy leading fast paced, high performance agile development teams. You like leading the team from the front, identify team strengths, build in-house talent and competencies.
• Quick learner, self motivated. Proponent of innovation and process improvements in the team with a focus on improving team productivity.Excellent written and verbal communications and negotiation skill.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
• Experience with platform level security requirements and compliance frameworks
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community
• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (such as Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox etc)