The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team at Cisco is looking to develop solutions that power the largest networks in the world, and this role is intended to help qualify and automate influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers.
Requirements
- Programming experience with Python or Go
- Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as (BGP, ISIS, IPv6, MPLS-TE, OSPF, MPLS, Segment Routing, GRE, L2VPN, L3VPN, Segment Routing, EVPN & Multicast)
- Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance and protocol testing
- Experience of supporting Web/Service-provider customers
- Experience in Routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture
- Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
- Experience with network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Robot framework
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand customer use cases and design the topology to replicate their solutions
- Reproduce customer environments in internal labs using hardware, traffic generators, and open-source tools to validate solutions
- Accurately replicate network protocols, using tools and technologies to mimic real-world scenarios for testing and validation purposes
- Design and develop innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment plans
- Monitor and optimize performance of the customer’s network environment
- Bring up customer solutions in Cisco lab
- Develop innovative test frameworks and web-based GUIs that leverage analytics and machine learning
Other
- Bachelors in STEM with 6+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 4+ years of relevant experience or PhD in STEM with 1+ years of relevant experience
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms
- Access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings
- Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday
