8 days ago
Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand customer use cases and design representative network topologies.
- Reproduce customer environments in internal labs using hardware, traffic generators, and open-source tools.
- Design and develop automation tools, test frameworks, and network validation scripts.
- Replicate network protocols and execute automated and manual testing to validate customer solutions.
- Configure, validate, troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize routing platforms and customer network environments.
- Perform root cause analysis and deliver solutions for large-scale service-provider and enterprise deployments.
- Collaborate globally with development and account management teams.
- Develop web-based GUIs leveraging analytics and machine learning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience developing automation tools, test frameworks, and network validation scripts using Python.
- Hands-on experience with BGP, OSPF, ISIS, MPLS, Segment Routing, and Multicast technologies.
- Experience with network automation using pyATS or similar tools, protocol testing, and software quality assurance.
- Experience reproducing customer environments, performing root cause analysis, and delivering solutions for large-scale service providers or enterprises.
- Experience configuring, validating, and troubleshooting routing platforms such as Cisco Nexus switches, including hardware-based forwarding.
- Preferred experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
- Preferred CCIE, CCNP, or Cisco DevNet certification.
- Preferred experience with Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Ixia, and Spirent.
- Preferred experience with gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, YANG, REST API, and RPC.
- Knowledge of CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Bash/Unix shell scripting.
- Knowledge of KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Understanding and hands-on experience with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR platforms.
- Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid role requiring at least three days per week onsite in the RTP office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Up to 80 hours of paid volunteer time and optional additional volunteer days.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
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.