Senior System Test & Automation: SONiC @ Cisco

Meet the Team

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.

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.

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

Your Impact

Software Development & Integration:

• Understand design and deployment of SONiC, automate and validate SONiC solutions end to end.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions. Ensure solutions work end to end across different flavours of silicon.
• Ensure SONiC tests are automated and leveraged heavily in CICD setups.

System Design:

• Work with Technical Leader ensuring Cisco SONiC solution is scalable.
• Validate and benchmark SONiC solution. Optimize resource utilization, operational stability.

Collaboration & Engagement:

• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, gather requirements, and align deliverables with business objectives.
• Help in evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles.
• Identify issue in a timely manner and ensure quality of the deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of software development and automation experience, preferably in product companies with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
• Adept in Python as coding language. Actively coding and automating functionalities with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience with virtualization and container technologies e.g. Docker.
• Hands-on work experience working with software data and control plane software, Linux user space/OS internals.Comfortable with networking technologies such as L2, L3, VLAN, Port Channel, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, ACL etc.
• Experience in designing, modelling, performance testing. Worked with opensource tools and databases (e.g. Redis). Experience in writing and testing of software for high performing and scalable data canter / service provider networking products.
• Comfortable working on technical projects in a complex development environment.
• Self-motivated and quick learner with excellent problem-solving skills, logical thinking and a hunger to learn new technologies.
• Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Fair understanding of the network security requirements.
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community.