Job Description

What you do

Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) Cloud & Automation team is looking for a Software Engineer to work in small virtual team to craft, build, test and integrate the Automation & Orchestration solutions. The team works with large Service Provider and Enterprise customers to help transform their networks to virtualized, automated, cloud enabled, self-healing and secure network systems. The Automation solutions cover both physical and virtual infrastructure including Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Hardware/Software Disaggregation, Cloud, DC, WAN, Mobility and Security infrastructure. The Software Developer role is to work in a small team of software developers working on Automation solutions leveraging software products & tools from both Cisco and non-Cisco (OpenSource, 3rd party) vendors. The Automation solutions may be comprised of software products & tools such as Tailf-NSO, NFV solutions to automate Cisco and 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), Ansible, OpenStack, Terraform, Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), Integration Middleware, Workflow Management and UI/Portal systems.

Who you'll work with

The Team interacts with Customer, Business Units, Sales team and Technical Services during the lifecycle of a project through Presales scoping/Proof-Of-Concept/Project delivery/Optimization. The role is to work in a small team of software SMEs spread globally. The Team is comprised of Automation Architects, Software Development Leads and Software Developers who work on customer’s software integration, automation & orchestration projects. The work activities are;

• Understand customer requirements,
• Advise customer on possible solution options
• Design the solution
• Implementation of solution using Cisco and 3rd party products with potential extensions and customizations,
• Integrate into existing customer’s OSS/BSS systems,
• Package and deploy solution in the target environments
• Perform integration, system & acceptance testing in various non-production as well as in a customer’s production environment
• Provide day-2 support and ongoing optimization.

Who you are :

• The role of Consulting Engineer is work in small team of software engineers & automation architects to build and deliver integration, automation & orchestration solutions. Internally, the person works with the virtual team of developers and testers and externally, the person may work with customer’s technical leads and middle management.
• The candidate should be able to perform the following activities: comprehension of solution requirements & documentation, solution architecture & design, Test-Driven and Behaviour Driven development (TDD/BDD), software customization, software deployment architecture and software packaging, integration, system and customer acceptance testing for the customer’s software solution.
• Candidate must be experienced on Agile Software Development methodology.
• The candidate should have prior experience of delivering complex and highly scalable software projects.
• The candidate should have strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. The person should be self-motivated and able to work independently and/or in support of small teams

Attributes of a successful candidate

• Strong experience with MEAN stack development
• Strong experience with Typescript and Javascript
• Strong experience with software integration - Web Services (RESTful/SOAP)
• Strong experience with SDLC tools (Jenkins, Git, Automated Testing Frameworks)
• Good experience with Agile Software Development processes
• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (MySQL, Postgres)
• Familiarity with Docker containers and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Microservices
• Experience with BPMN workflow engines (jBPM/Activiti, Camunda etc.) strongly preferred
• Experience with Python and Django strongly preferred
• Knowledge of network & software configuration tools such as Cisco Tail-f/ NSO, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform is a plus
• Knowledge of Analytics with Big Data, AI, Machine Learning algorithms is a plus
• Good verbal and written communications skills

Minimum Qualification

• BE/BTech degree with 8+ years of hands-on software development experience
• Proven track record in an industry or horizontal solution area
• Ability to tackle problems with innovative ideas. Assume complete ownership with regards to the engagement with client and partners

We Are Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here's how we do it. We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box! But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.) Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break, and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool.