Cisco Leader Engineering SONiC Development L2/L3 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

962814050

Who You’ll Work With

As an 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.

What You'll Do

In this role you will:

• Mentor and develop engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the broader SONiC Group.

• Give technical inputs to the team on L2 and L3 areas.
• Guide team members technically, participate in the architecture discussions and code reviews.
• Own deliverables schedule and track progress of the projects.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, product management and security.
• Be a role model of company culture and values.

Who You Are

You are an experienced leader with a successful track record of leading product teams responsible to design and develop high quality networking products.

• Around 15 years of work experience with 5 years of hands on management experience. You have managed 10-15 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 managing the team, you will use your domain expertise to participate in technical discussions. You are comfortable going deep into L2 and L3 networking areas and provide inputs to the team whenever necessary.
• Eager to participate in code reviews in C, C++ and Python whenever required.

• Fair understanding of Docker, Containerized environment, Opensource tools, Security vulnerabilities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and negotiation skill. Quick learner, self motivated.
• If you have a background on SONiC, it's a huge plus.