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Position: Software Systems Engineering Manager
Experience : 12+ Years
Location : Chennai
Job Description
The Cloud Engineering team in India is looking for a passionate, self-driven, technology-oriented Engineering Manager/senior engineering Manager having a natural mindset for - Developing Enterprise-class products, customer satisfaction, Innovation, architecting, troubleshooting, leading and managing a team of high-performance engineers. A self-driven go-getter who thrives in a technical environment and is happy to take on everyday challenges with a mature approach.
Experience / Skill Required
- Minimum 12+ Years of software development experience including leadership of effective and innovative teams.
- Bachelor's / Master's of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
- Min 2 years of experience in managing engineering teams of at least 8-10 Engineers, with an ability to rally the team to achieve high performance in a collaborative environment
- Proficiency in modern Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile development methodologies involving CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Microservices, and Infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience leading and providing technical guidance to teams working on Software Development and Testing products, preferably in centre networking or Cloud Native Networking.
Technical Skills Required
- Strong Exposure to networking domain including switching and routing protocols, and manageability of networking solutions.
- Experience in networking domain for Layer 2 switching, L3 routing protocols, BGP, VxLAN, VLAN,
- Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Golang, C, or C++.
- Strong knowledge of API design such as RESTful API, XML APIs, and SNMP.
- Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes & Containers, and Golang in a multi-core, multi-threading environment.
- Strong working experience in developing applications using microservice-based architecture, Docker containers, understanding of DB concepts and API designs
Other Qualifications
Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills, effectively able to collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.
- Strong experience in architecting a product level or several feature level designs, breaking them down to tasks, assigning them to the right engineers, co-ordination within the team and across teams, conducting relevant reviews during the software life-cycle, ensuring quality at all stages of the development process, believe in a left-shift quality process, plan for automation and feature-testing.
- Strong communication skills and technical articulation skills are mandatory.
- Experience in full software development life cycle using Agile methodologies
- Strong emphasis on achieving key objectives and results.
Role And Responsibilities
- Lead and manage team of software development engineers
- Plan the deliverables for one or more product releases
- Participate in and drive the team to architect/design, develop, test, automate several features on Extreme's Cloud platform
- Conduct reviews as needed at every stage of the development and test process and ensure the necessary quality
- Co-ordinate with different stake holders (like PLM, PM, QA, peer teams..etc) as needed to achieve key objectives and results
- Innovate and implement new ideas as needed during the development and test process
- Plan for and attend meetings and conference calls as needed to ensure smooth execution of the deliverables
- Conduct scrum meetings regularly as needed
- Use a flexible and priority approach to address incoming customer issues
- Participate in and drive managerial activities like hiring, conducting 1on1s with engineers, appraisals, keeping the team motivated, ensuring continuous learning, and maintaining a team culture that is aligned with the company culture.
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Extreme Networks, Inc. ( EXTR ) creates effortless networking experiences that enable all of us to advance. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before. For more information, visit Extreme's website or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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