SONiC Development: Senior DevOps Release Engineer 8+ years

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Network
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking
  • Job Id
    1430418

 

Who We Are

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.

 

Who You’ll Work With

This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. 

As a senior software engineer, you will work closely with a group of engineers, QA and automation engineers, collaborate extensively with technical leads and engineering managers. You need to be ready to present solutions to customers and other stakeholders.

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

 

What You'll Do

 

The SONiC team in DSE is looking for awesome talented individuals to help build their Next Generation NOS.

 

In this role, you will be responsible to build and deploy SONiC solution, collaborate with engineering teams, technical leads and architects. You will adopt new development tools and infrastructure, manage release engineering activities, CICD pipelines, come up with efficient build mechanisms and accelerate software development process.

 

You'll also be responsible to ensure that the solution built is secured, safe from cyber security threats and meets global and Cisco standards. As you learn the new technologies, you propose new ideas and implement those continuously in the development process.

 

Who You Are

 

You have a proven track record of being a DevOps engineer, worked earlier in a similar software engineering environment. You are hands on having real production-level experience, preferably in core networking domain. You are eager to build best in class products for Datacenter Enterprise customers and Service Providers.

 

  • Around 10 years of software development experience, with very good exposure on distributed architecture.
  • Atleast 3 years of hands-on working experience with Docker and Linux-based infrastructures.
  • Successful track record of improving infrastructure through automation and development of tools.
  • Excellent knowledge on how to build applications by using make files, source code management, Maven, Debian images etc.
  • Working knowledge of various tools and open-source technologies.
  • Adept in Python and Groovy scripts. Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
  • Comfortable with GitHub, Jira, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins.
  • Good understanding of monitoring, alerting, logging frameworks, databases including NoSQL databases.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
  • Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills. Self motivated and quick learner. Strong will to accelerate agile development process.
  • If you have worked on SONiC program earlier, it is a huge plus.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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