Meet the Team

Cisco provides you an excellent opportunity to take your career aspirations forward. You will bring your unique talents to the group that works on Cisco's routing technology, which large enterprises now consider to be the transport medium of choice for mission-critical networks. In your role as Senior Software Engineer, you will test products that are deployed by some of the leading service providers in the world. You will work with a BU-wide vibrant technical community, learning from experts and translating this learning into exciting opportunities for growth. Besides this, you will also mentor your junior colleagues in their day-to-day activities.

Your Impact

As an integral member of this team, you will work with a team of seasoned engineers. You will have the opportunity to test some of the world’s largest Service Provider Routers that are continuously evolving towards enabling the support of newer and exciting customer business paradigms.

You will be interacting and working closely with some of the finest talent pool in the industry – where you will find that work is both fun and challenging.

Preferred Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points: these can include soft skills)

Excellence in all that you do is what drives you. To ensure this, you have a thorough understanding of distributed/centralized hardware architectures of routers/switches. Your concepts are strong and you have a good knowledge of L2, L3, and MPLS protocols and forwarding infrastructure. You have exposure to deployment architectures in the routing and switching domains. You possess the necessary skills to work in a highly collaborative, inclusive, and agile atmosphere in partnership with cross-functional teams.

• Experience: 5-9 years

• BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech/MS in CS/EE/IT/ECE, MCA, or similar education.

• Experience with real-time O/S (VxWorks, pSOS or IOS, Linux, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux, with knowledge of Linux virtualization.

• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, multicast protocols, network synchronization, segment routing, SDN, manageability (telemetry, gRPC, Netconf/Yang, etc.)

• Cisco Networking certificates, such as CCIE, CCNP, etc. are desirable.

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!