Lead Software Engineer

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Ciena’s Blue Planet UAA is an open, vendor -agnostic software suite with the latest innovations in AI and ML. The unit has an advanced development team responsible for end-to-end network insight complements the automated service fulfillment capabilities provided by MDSO and NFVO. We are looking for a Software Engineer who has the experience to drive the activities related to given phase/integration setup installation.

What will you do as a BluePlanet UAA Software Engineer?

Software Engineer will work in BluePlanet’s with project manager, team lead, other leads and team members to provide optimal solutions.

• Understand the overall project, understand phase-wise requirements
• Requirements gathering, analysis and define for a given phase/integration
• Draft and own requirements for an integration with 3rd party tools
• Draft and own requirements for an entire phase within the project
• Create work tasks for a given requirement
• Allocate tasks to junior team members
• Manage tasks for junior team members
• Responsible for quality and timely deliverables
• Coordinate with project manager, team lead, other leads and team members to provide optimal solutions
• Review test plan for various phases/integrations
• Review user guide for various phases/integrations
  
  

Desired Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree (CS, EE), or equivalent experience required
• Master’s Degree, preferred
• 8+ years of industry experience working on below technologies.
• Must have:
• Java
• On databases such as MySQL, postgres, Oracle or equivalent
• Data Structures and Algorithm
• Multithreading
• Good to have
• Angular and NodeJS
• Neo4J
• Rest API
• Akka
• Kafka
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Python and Shell scripting
• Strong working knowledge of agile/waterfall SW methodologies
• Strong working knowledge on High level and Low Level Software Design.
• Strong working knowledge on unit and integration test development.
• Strong working knowledge on Linux environments.
• Strong written and oral English communication skills
• Process oriented, self-starter, self-motivated individual
  
  

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