SONiC Development | L2/L3 Protocols, Go, Python, Docker | Manageability | Exp 5-8 years | 1430421|

Who We Are

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition.

Who Youll Work With

This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies.

As an engineering technical lead, you will work closely with a group of engineers, QA and automation engineers, collaborate extensively with other technical leads and engineering managers. You need to be ready to present solutions to customers and other stakeholders.

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

What You'll Do

The SONiC team in DSE is looking for awesome talented individuals to help build their Next Generation NOS.

In this role, you will be responsible to design and develop SONiC manageability solution, collaborate with team members and other technical leads. You are hands on and will build best in class products for Datacenter Enterprise customers and Service Providers. You'll be responsible to ensure that the solution is secured, scalable and meets customer SLAs.

Who You Are

You have a proven track record of designing and developing containerized solutions and software solutions.

• Minimum 6 years of software development experience, preferably in product companies with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
• Hands-on experience with virtualization and container technologies e.g. Docker. Worked on Netconf/Yang, distributed caches such as Redis.
• Adept in Go Lang and Python as coding language.
• Hands-on work experience working with software data and control plane software, data structure, Linux user space/OS internals.
• Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, Authentication etc.
• Experience in designing, modelling and testing of software. Exposure working with Opensource tools.
• Working knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Self-motivated and quick learner with excellent problem-solving skills, logical thinking, decent presentation skills but more importantly, the hunger to learn new technologies.
• If you have worked on SONiC program earlier, it is a huge plus.