Software Development Manager

What You'll Do

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. You will work on networking equipment that forms a crucial part of mobile network. In your role as a Manager, you will lead a dynamic team and participate in the process of defining product roadmaps. Your skills will shine through when you successfully motivate the engineers within your team to deliver high-quality products/features on time, every time. Besides this, you will also interact with senior leadership to work towards aligning your BU's goals with that of the company.

Who You'll Work With

As a crucial member of this team, you will manage a team of seasoned engineers. You will have the opportunity to architect, design, and develop 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.

Who You Are

Delivering products of excellent quality combined with effectively leading a bright group of engineers 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 cross-functional teams.

• Experience: 12-15 years, with 3-5 years as people manager.
• Bachelors degree in CS/EE/EC or technical equivalent.
• 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.)
• Cisco Networking certificates, such as CCIE, CCNP, etc. are desirable.

Why Cisco

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

We are thought leaders, 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.