Python Automation Engineer (Networking Domain) @ Cisco

What Youll do

You will be responsible for:

• Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS
• XR platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area.
• Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results.
• Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes.
• Proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning.
• Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution.
• Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience

4+ years of programming experience with Python or Go

Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP,LDP, Segment routing, L2VPN,L3VPN,EVPN.

Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance

Preferred Qualifications

Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools

Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus.

Experience with network automation frameworks like pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot

Experience with network monitoring tools like Grafana, telegraf, Elasticsearch and InfluxDB

Experience in working with traffic generators like Ixia and Spirent.

Experience in network programmability - gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF,YANG REST APIs, RPC

Strong Linux experience, with preferred knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus

Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms