Who You'll Work With As an integral member of this team, you will work with a team of seasoned engineers. You will have the opportunity to architect, design, and develop some of the worlds most widely deployed Enterprise Switches 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.

Who You Are 

Excellent quality 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 possess the necessary skills to work in a highly collaborative, inclusive, and agile atmosphere in partnership with multi-functional teams.

- Experience: 9-15 years

- Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/EC or technical equivalent.

- Ability to write good software in C.

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

- Expertise in using Unix/Linux development tools, and Linux virtualization.

- Experience in network processor programming, POSIX thread programming.

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

Services Team: If the opening is for the Services Team, you should have good knowledge about Network Security Protocols like IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.1AE, NAT, IPSec etc Having working knowledge in areas like QoS, Netflow and Openflow will help you quickly integrate with the team and its mandate.

FORWARDING TEAM:

Good understanding of bridging and routing fundamentals. Working knowledge of unicast and multicast packet forwarding for both bridging and routing cases. Good understanding on campus or enterprise network deployment architectures. Hands on experience in development of L2 or L3 control plane protocols like STP/RSTP,UDLD, IGMP, RIP/OSPF/BGP/ISIS, BFD, PIM/MLD. Hands on experience in configuring and solving data plane features in ASICs.

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team on innovative technology and powering a more inclusive future for all. How do we do it? Well, for starters with people like you!

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their businesses. Sure, were a company thats 35 years strong and maybe youve heard were a hardware company. But were also a software company. A security company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns, and protects. And were the tech behind keeping the world connected, productive, and ever adapting in our hybrid world by way of Webex.

Day to day, our teams have each others backs. We tackle whatever challenge comes our way, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate one another from big life moments to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 5 days off each year to do just that too)!

Whats powering an inclusive future for all look like? We know that without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities are leading the way, and together were committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, and supporting the most vulnerable through our innovation, amazing culture, and a collective effort to make this world a better place. 

So, you have colorful hair? Dont care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? Thats cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco