2 days ago
Base Salary
$138k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute risk-based test plans for Cisco Secure Firewall products and their management, data-plane, platform, and ecosystem integrations.
- Validate end-to-end firewall, threat-inspection, routing, switching, NAT, VPN, identity, logging, and policy-deployment workflows.
- Test standalone, high-availability, clustered, multi-instance, virtualized, and cloud-based deployment topologies.
- Perform feature integration, system, regression, upgrade, rollback, backward-compatibility, resiliency, recovery, scale, stress, and longevity testing.
- Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot automated tests using Python-based frameworks and supporting tools.
- Build, configure, and maintain test environments containing network devices, security appliances, traffic generators, virtual machines, and cloud resources.
- Reproduce, isolate, and characterize complex failures using packet captures, logs, traces, core files, system metrics, and diagnostic tools.
- Document defects with reproduction procedures, technical evidence, business impact, and severity justification.
- Participate in feature handoffs, technical reviews, test-plan reviews, defect triage, and cross-functional quality reviews.
- Use AI-assisted engineering and testing tools appropriately while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience designing test scenarios, selecting testing methodologies, and configuring test environments.
- Experience using Python or a comparable scripting language for test automation and tooling.
- Linux or Unix administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience using generative AI assistants across the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred experience testing firewalls, intrusion prevention or detection systems, secure gateways, or comparable security platforms.
- Strong TCP/IP and network-troubleshooting knowledge, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, routing, IPv4, IPv6, NAT, VPN, and high availability.
- Experience with packet-analysis and diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, system logs, debuggers, or equivalent utilities.
- Experience with Cisco Secure Firewall technologies including FTD, FMC, ASA, FXOS, or Snort.
- Experience with Python test frameworks such as pyATS or pytest.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test execution systems.
- Experience validating upgrades, rollback, backward compatibility, configuration migration, and production-like workloads.
- Experience with performance, scale, stress, soak, resiliency, or fault-injection testing.
- Familiarity with VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with traffic-generation, protocol-simulation, or network-performance tools.
- Knowledge of security threats, traffic inspection, identity integration, telemetry, logging, and observability.
- Cisco networking or security certification such as CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Security.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across geographically distributed teams.
Benefits
- The position is open to candidates in Fulton, Maryland, or Austin, Texas.
- The posted starting salary range is $138,100.00 to $198,200.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- U.S. benefits 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, floating and wellness days, birthday and year-end shutdown time, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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.