Senior Control Plane Engineer
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The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and applications. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition. This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture.

Who You'll Work With:

You will be working among engineers who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Who you are:

You are curious and a problem solver. You love to learn and grow and work in an environment that is constantly evolving. You are a self-starter that thrives on learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues. You are comfortable working with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. You are a technologist at heart and a leader in practice that is experienced in routing protocol stack development and network operating systems. You possess an in-depth understanding of the deployment of routing protocols in large scale networks and solve networking challenges through routing protocol enhancement designs. You're diligent with an automation first mindset and have experience with scripting languages and test frameworks.

What you will do:

As a Control Plane Engineer, you'll join an agile team engaged in the design, development and testing of the Control Plane required for the Cisco 8000 platforms utilizing experience listed in the basic and preferred qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications:

• MS/BS degree in CS/EE/CE or technical equivalent.
• 7+ years' of related work experience.
• Software Development experience using C, C++, and/or Python.
• Experience developing routing protocol stack in vendor NOS or in open-source networking stacks like FRR, Quagga.
• A deep understanding of network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and/or knowledge of Segment Routing, L2VPN and EVPN technologies, BIER and Controller based Solutions.
• Understanding of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) principles, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and related technologies such as OpenFlow, network overlays, and virtualized network functions.
• Packet forwarding operating systems internals, algorithms, and computer architecture.
• Experience with MPLS based VPNs (MVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN).
• GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Virtualization and container technologies including KVM/Qemu, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex network issues, including packet capture analysis, log analysis, and protocol debugging.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!