Cisco Senior Engineering ManagerSystem Test & 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

754600938

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will handle 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.

• Understand design and deployment of SONiC, lead the SONiC solutions test team end to end.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions. Ensure solutions work end to end across different flavours of silicon.
• Own work you're doing schedule and supervise progress of the projects. Ensure SONiC tests are automated and demonstrated heavily in CICD setups.

• Work with Technical Leader and other engineering managers to understand how to make Cisco SONiC solution scalable. Ensure team is validating and benchmarking SONiC solution.

• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align work with business objectives.
• Help in evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.
• Identify issue in a timely manner and ensure quality of the work. Eager to participate in code reviews in Python whenever required.
• Be a role model of company culture and values.

• Around 20 years of work experience with 5+ years of hands on management experience. Handled around 10 people.
• Prior work experience with software data and control plane software, data structure, Linux user space/OS internals is a must.
• Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, ACL etc. You have worked on these areas for at least 5 years as a developer.
• Besides leading the team, you are comfortable going deep into L2 and L3 networking areas and provide inputs to the team whenever vital. Use your domain expertise to participate in technical discussions.
• Fair understanding of Docker, Containerized environment, Opensource tools, Security vulnerabilities.
• Good in hiring and retaining top talents across grades. Involved in performance evaluation, salary planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Proponent of innovation and process improvements in the team with a focus on improving team productivity.
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and negotiation skill. Quick learner, self-motivated.

• Working knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Fair understanding of the network security requirements.
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community.