Job Description

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified below and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Lead - Network Planning Software - C++, C#.Net Algorithms

What will you do at Ciena?

A software designer is required to aid in the development of a Standalone/Server-based/Web based/Cloud based, network design and engineering application for Real Time Network Planning. The application will assist customers in the design and development of OTN & Optical DWDM networks featuring Ciena's market leading and pioneering optical products and technologies.

This application is used to design and deploy Ciena's Transport, Switching and Packet hardware for Long haul, Regional and Metro networks.

The successful candidate will be expected follow a disciplined approach to software development to ensure that the application is delivered with high quality, to the required specifications, and by the required delivery date.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team of engineers and software designers and will gain firsthand experience developing software

Responsibilities

• Analysis, software design and implementation to validate and optimize DWDM, SONET/SDH, OTN based networks, which are designed based on a variety of parameters
• Apply design principles to work in a client server, desktop based or microservice-based development environment and keeping in mind performance and memory constraints.
• Work collaboratively with Product Owner, Product Line Manager (PLM) and Verification.
• Complete assigned development tasks including unit testing and documenting work
• Translate functional requirements into development tasks and provide project manager accurate time estimates for completion
• Troubleshooting and debugging of reported issues
• Keep yourself abreast with latest technology trends

General Activities

• Feature analysis and discussion with product owners to understand and frame the detailed requirements with design estimates.
• Work in Agile Scrum and create/update Jira's with detailed description, DoD & acceptance criteria.
• Design and Implementation
• Unit testing & integration testing.
• Work with product verification team in resolving feature defects.

Collaboration with stakeholders

Work collaboratively with:

• Peers
• Release Manager
• Product Owner
• Product Line Manager (PLM)
• Product Verification

Areas of impact

• Network Planning Software
• OnePlanner
• Blue Planet MCP
• Planner Plus

Experience

Candidate should have 2-6 years of experience in following:

• Problem Solving, Excellent Aptitude and Positive Attitude - Critical
• Decent Knowledge of Data Structures and exposure to Performance Improvement - Critical
• End-to-end software development (requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and support) - Critical
• Languages

• C#.Net/ C++ (Version 11+)/VB.Net- Critical
• OOPS - Critical
• Dynamic Languages - Scala, Python - Desirable
• Platform

• MicroServices, ASP.NET Core
• .NET Framework 4.5.1 or later
• Visual Studio 2017/2019 on Windows.
• Message Queues like Kafka
• Unit Test Frameworks - e.g. GoogleTest, NUnit, XUnit
• DB/File Formats/ORM

• Databases e.g. Cassandra, AWS -S3
• JSON, XML
• nHibernate/Hibernate/Entity Framework
• Client/Server

• REST API, Web Services, SOAP.

Additional skills:

• Good Communication Skills - Critical
• Good Interpersonal Skills - Critical
• Exposure to docker containers - Desired
• Knowledge of concepts in terms of DWDM, SONET/SDH, OTN and knowledge of telecom object models - Desired
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies - Desired
• Familiarity/experience with other technologies, including database design, Client/Server etc. is considered an asset
• Prior knowledge of Network Planning Software/EMS/NMS will be an asset

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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