Cisco System Test & Automation Engineer SONiC 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

873933938

You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Your Impact

Software Development & Integration:

• Understand design and deployment of SONiC, automate and validate SONiC solutions end to end.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions. Ensure solutions work end to end across different flavours of silicon.
• Ensure SONiC tests are automated and leveraged heavily in CICD setups.

System Design:

• Work with Technical Leader and understand how to make Cisco SONiC solution scalable.
• Validate and benchmark SONiC solution. Optimize resource utilization, operational stability.

Collaboration & Engagement:

• 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 deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software development and automation experience, preferably in product companies with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
• Adept in Python as coding language. Actively coding and automating functionalities with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience with virtualization and container technologies e.g. Docker.
• Hands-on work experience working with software data and control plane software, Linux user space/OS internals. Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, ACL etc.
• Experience in designing, modelling, performance testing. Worked with opensource tools and databases (e.g. Redis). Experience in writing and testing of software for high performing and scalable data canter / service provider networking products.
• Comfortable working on technical projects in a complex development environment.
• Self-motivated and quick learner with excellent problem-solving skills, logical thinking and a hunger to learn new technologies.
• Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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