Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

About The Position

As a CVT Solution Qualification Engineering Leader, you will play a critical role in ensuring the seamless deployment of networking solutions for high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers. This role includes bringing up customer solutions in cisco lab, developing innovative test frameworks and web-based GUIs that leverage analytics and machine learning, as well as driving automated and manual test cases on validating the solution. You will collaborate globally with internal development teams and account management teams to ensure alignment and understanding of the work. You will also…

Requirements

Bachelors in STEM with 12+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 8+ years of relevant experience or PhD in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
Experience testing or configuring the following L2/L3 networking protocols; BGP, MPLS and IGP (OSPF or ISIS)
Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance

Nice To Haves

Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center).
Experience on platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000.
Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API.
Experience in configuring/fixing protocols such as L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models.

Responsibilities

Design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on IOS-XR for various platforms
Develop innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment
Drive test cases manually and through automation, managing defects and fixes
Seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation
Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs and generate technical reports and whitepapers

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.