2 months ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on Cisco IOS-XR platforms.
- Create test plans and dynamically prioritize testing based on customer needs.
- Design and develop test frameworks and tools for test execution environments.
- Develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to display and analyze test execution results.
- Drive manual and automated test cases and raise, track, prioritize, and verify defects and fixes.
- Improve test coverage, execution, automation, performance, and configuration dimensioning.
- Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs and generate test executions.
- Collaborate with development, account, customer support, and customer teams to understand and validate use cases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or master's degree in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- At least 3 years of programming experience with Python.
- Experience with L2 or L3 networking protocols, including ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN.
- Experience in networking automation or software quality assurance.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
- Industry certification such as CCIE, CCNP, or Cisco DevNet is preferred.
- Experience with pyATS, Pytest, Ansible, or Robot network automation frameworks.
- Experience with Grafana, Telegraf, Elasticsearch, or InfluxDB network monitoring tools.
- Experience with Ixia or Spirent traffic generators.
- Experience with gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, YANG, REST APIs, or RPC network programmability.
- Strong Linux experience and preferred knowledge of KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning is a plus.
- Understanding and hands-on experience with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid role in Milpitas, California, requiring three days per week in the office.
- Starting salary range is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses.
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About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.