Description
You will be a member of the Global Certification Team (GCT) at Cisco, working on architecting, designing, developing, and testing systems.
As a Software Engineer, you will maintain and handle the lab infrastructure that supports the team and help bring Cisco products through certification.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and manage the lab infrastructure supporting the team.
- Build test networks, including configuration, installation, and setup of routers and switches.
- Assist in certification-related projects, including internal lab testing, product analysis, and communication with engineering business units.
- Perform onsite testing at Government test centers (travel up to 15% of the time).
- Research, design, develop, and document technical solutions, procedures, and organisational change documentation, using automation and AI-assisted tools.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience working with Cisco products
- Demonstrable Experience of IP routing protocols and switching technologies (e.g., LAN/WAN, STP, OSPF, BGP, VRRP/HSRP, IPv4, IPv6)
- Ability to build test networks, including configuration and setup of routers and switches
- Understanding of security concepts and frameworks: SSHv2, PKI, IPSec, TLS, AAA, Zero Trust, NIST 800-53, STIGs
- Community college or higher education in Information Technology/Systems, Computer Science, or engineering, or a similar background, or 4 years additional work experience in a related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- CCNP or Cisco DevNet Associate certification; familiarity with network automation (Ansible, Terraform), APIs and data models (REST, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG, JSON/YAML), and Git
- Experience with data center and cloud technologies: Cisco UCS, Nexus, VXLAN/EVPN, ESXi/Hyper-V, Docker/Kubernetes awareness, Windows Server/Active Directory, and at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Foundational scripting experience with Python and/or Bash
- Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and responsible, secure AI usage; ability to detail environments with Visio, draw.io, or diagrams-as-code
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; detail oriented, self-motivated, strong time management, and able to work independently and in a team
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer