Job description

At Cisco, we are a global leader in networking and IT, driving innovation and redefining how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Our mission is to shape the future of the internet by creating outstanding value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. We are committed to encouraging a diverse and partnership environment where everyone can thrive and encourage our collective success.

What You'll Do

As a CVT Solution Qualification Engineer, you will collaborate with dedicated, dynamic, hardworking, and complementary team members to work on the qualification and automation of influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers, impacting an endless number of users worldwide.

You will be responsible for designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, and 8000 platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximising the right technical expertise and skills in each area. You will design and develop 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. Your role involves driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes. You will proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning. Additionally, you will reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution reports and technical whitepapers, and collaborate with teams across multiple continents.

Who You'll Work with

As a senior member of this team, you will work with a tight knit, highly skilled team that demonstrates a competence and appetite for learning new technologies, evidenced by the ability to expand upon core knowledge. Our engineers are passionate about what they do and go above and beyond to assist not just the customer, but also their teammates and peers. "Work hard, play harder" is the motto of the team. The team is a good mix of engineers with varying years of experience (from 3 years all the way to 20+years) in Cisco technologies and solutions, and each-and-every-one of them bring phenomenal value to the table. Our team has global presence located in US, Canada and India centers.

In addition to working with a team of seasoned Networking professionals on day-to-day basis, you will also get to socialize with other groups, such as Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Advanced Services and Customer Team.

Who You Are

You have passion to qualify and automate SP, web networking solutions and use cases to ensure smooth deployment by these customers. You have experience qualifying, deploying, fixing, and/or maintaining SP/web networking technologies and especially XR platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 8+ years of professional experience or Master’s Degree in Computer Science with 6+ years of professional experience

Experience with Networking Automation and Software Quality Assurance, protocol testing, and supporting Web/Service-provider customers Experience with Routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture and networking technologies.

Hands on experience with Python automation

Preferred Qualifications

Certificate in CCIE (Routing Switching / Service Provider / Data Center)

Experience on the following platforms: ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000

Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf REST API

Background in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins and Cisco NSO Exposure in CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu UNIX/Linux and expertise on Bash/Unix Shell Scripting

Experience in configuration/fixing Protocols: ISIS/OSPF, BGP, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, SegmentRouting, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf OpenConfig Yang Models

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

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Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.