3 days 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 demands.
- Design and develop test frameworks and tools supporting the test execution environment.
- Develop web-based GUIs using analytics and machine learning to display and analyze execution results.
- Execute test cases manually and through automation, 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 validate customer use cases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in STEM and 7+ years of relevant experience, or master's degree in STEM and 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Networking domain experience with L2 or L3 protocols including ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN.
- Experience in networking software quality assurance.
- CCIE certification in Routing & Switching, Service Provider, or Data Center is preferred.
- Experience with Cisco platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, and 8000 is preferred.
- Experience with RDMA technologies and protocols such as InfiniBand, RoCE, or iWARP is preferred.
- Experience with OpenFlow, Netconf, and REST API is preferred.
- Experience with network automation tools including pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot Framework, and Cisco NSO is preferred.
- Expertise in UNIX/Linux environments and Bash/Unix shell scripting is preferred.
- Experience configuring or fixing L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf, and OpenConfig YANG Models is preferred.
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.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- Paid time off includes holidays, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, wellness days, volunteer days, and other paid leave subject to eligibility and 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.