The networking industry is undergoing a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and applications. Cisco's Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is looking for a Technical Leader to help develop products that power the largest networks in the world and capture this market transition by harnessing open-source technologies and pushing boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing automation with Python
- 3+ years of experience configuring, testing or debugging networking systems and solutions
- Knowledge of control & data plane technologies including EVPN/VXLAN
- Experience with PyTest or similar open-source QA automation frameworks
- Experience working with test frameworks, traffic generators (commercial & open source) including examples…
- Exposure network operating systems, preferably SONiC
- Exposure to RDMA, HPC networks
Responsibilities
- design, development and execution of tests to qualify network performance for AI/ML capability
- end-to-end product testing and production support
- leverage your strong Python automation skills for scripting and testing
- work with automation frameworks like PyTest to automate and streamline the testing process
- make contributions to the open-source community to drive innovative solutions in this space
- Building out testing environments for system/solution validation
- Developing and enhancing test frameworks and benchmarking tools
Other
- local candidates as this is a hybrid role going into the office in Milpitas, CA at least 3 days per week
- Leading discussions with customers and gathering technical requirements
- Defining and gathering data for network performance benchmarking
- Troubleshooting customer issues
- Leading projects and mentoring other team members
