Principal Engineer - Solutions Engineering

WhatYou'llDo

You're an Architect/Test Engineering leader who drives quality at source and customer solution engineering and expected to deliver and lead through others, as well as personally working to reach innovative solutions to business problems. You will be understanding the customer requirement, deployment model and fully articulate the solutions to engineering and drive the quality from source.

You think scale and are obsessed with making customers happy. You're super thrilled to be the one responsible for enabling network automation, network orchestration for huge Pops and backbones around the world. You would not hesitate to roll-up sleeves and probe hardware in the lab when required.

Identify, deliver, and document the required artifacts to make the new capabilities generally available, including strategy collateral, roadmaps, position statements, policies, standards, concepts, and logical specifications

Drive Architecture and design for computer networking software for world's largest service providers, enterprise, data center. After the initial architecture phase, the architect would actively continue monitoring and consulting throughout the execution phases, including design, engineering, implementation, keeping the quality at source and drive the solution testing.

Influence strategic decision makers, engage with a wide set of partners and domain experts across multiple disciplines, establish relationships, and communicate strategy, architecture and technology to the broader internal community

Key job responsibilities include:

Manage the validation team, contributing to the Test of software modules, that enable critical solutions for the customer

Lead Develop automated tests in Python for developed software features to ensure high-quality.

Lead customer triages/debug sessions and helps the team with reproducing the problem in-house. Enable faster turn-around time for customer defects.

Provide input for comprehensive test plans and automation strategy for the features.

Participate in IETF forums and lead discussions for different solutions

Contribute to patents and technical events

Collaborate with development teams, marketing and cross-functional test teams to prioritize requirements and streamline execution.

Drive feature tests as well as system and solution tests and automation.

Innovate on tools, process, test methodologies, and customer solutions.

Strive to maintain very high-quality standards for the team

WhoYou'llWorkWith

Cisco NeXT Customer Experience team is an innovation hub working across key technologies responsible to deliver next generation network technologies. The software we are building will be used in millions of devices to build meaningful networks all over the world. You will be working with cross organization which helps to connected dotted lines to build solution across multiple business groups.

Do you enjoy spearheading innovation through personal initiative?

Would it excite you to be part of a highly motivated best of breed engineering team who is redefining and refreshing the software portfolio across Cisco's Service Provider/Enterprise/Data Center product lines?

Would you like to challenge yourself in driving a key technology transition in the Cisco customers while working with the market leader? Can you demonstrate the ability to develop software with a system-level focus while understanding the impact of every component, work with minimal supervision, collaborate with a multi-functional team and demonstrates technical knowledge and project management experience to accomplish the goals?

WhoYouAre

MinimumQualifications

Ability to solve complex problems involving multiple products.

Ability to effectively present technological concepts to a wide audience.

Ability to influence the development of industry-wide standards.

Exercises good judgment determining how to best achieve the technical objectives of the assignment.

Creative problem-solving skills and excellent troubleshooting/debugging skills

Ability to think outside the box to achieve business goals

Excellent teamwork and people management skills

Programming experience script languages (Python, Perl) and or (C, C++ ).

Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols (ex: IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, EVPN, SR)

DesiredSkills

You should be able to own large portions of the software from a technical perspective

You'll handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial mentorship.

You've strong team building skills. This role requires ability to work across departments and with other teams

Be open to continuous learning and committed to ongoing self-improvement.

Initiate and participate in interpersonal efforts to improve overall group productivity and test effectiveness. You'll contribute to overall test strategies

Self-motivated, strong sense of ownership, good teammate

WhyCisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking aggressive risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with rare personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are leaders with vision, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.