Engineering Manager DevOps & Release Engineering @ Cisco

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 the 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 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

The SONiC team in DSE is looking for awesome talented leaders to build the Next Generation NOS, SONiC, for Datacenter Enterprise customers and Service Providers.

In this role, you will be responsible to build and deploy DevOps solution, Release Engineering activities, collaborate with engineering teams, technical leads and architects. You will adopt new development tools and infrastructure, manage release engineering activities, CICD pipelines, come up with efficient build mechanisms and accelerate software development process.

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 DevOps and Release Engineering areas.
• Guide team members technically, participate in the design 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 at least 5-8 full time employees.

• Prior work experience with DevOps and Release Management, SRE activities. You have worked on these areas for at least 5 years as a core developer.

• Excellent understanding of Docker, Containerized environment, Jenkins, Databases, Opensource tools, Security vulnerabilities.

• Besides managing the team, you will use your domain expertise to participate in technical discussions. You are comfortable going deep networking areas and provide inputs to the team whenever necessary. Eager to participate in code reviews in Python whenever required.
• 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.