Technical Lead Engineer

This is a role within Cisco's DCN Controller group, the ACI controller software development team is focused on enhancing the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), which is a key component of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Their work involves automating multicloud data center network provisioning, policy enforcement, and health monitoring. The team ensures that the APIC optimizes performance and agility, allowing for seamless application deployment across multiple data centers sites. Additionally, they work on integrating third-party services and managing a scalable multitenant ACI fabric, which includes application-centric network policies and data-model-based provisioning .

Your Impact

• Drive design discussions across ACI teams to hash out solutions that solve customer’s problems in providing faster and reliable access to business applications deployed in their data centers.
• Implement highly optimized and robust data center networking features using Cisco’s propriety DME (Data Management Engine) framework to keep ACI offering competitive.
• Debug complex data center deployment/config issues on critical customer setups and come up with a viable solution in timely manner.
• Automate Unit Testing using Cisco’s properietory PyACI test freamwork, colloborate with QA in verifying and delivering bugs free end to end soultions to the customers.
• Train Cisco ACI Technical Asssitance Center (TAC) staff on new features enabling them analyze, debug and troubleshoot customers isssues promptly.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s plus 10+ years of experience, OR Masters plus 8 years of experience as a software engineer working on internetworking technologies and applications.
• Significant hands-on expertise in software development.employing object-oriented methodologies and leveraging C++ to their fullest extent.
• A profound mastery of harnessing C++ features to create exceptionally robust and reusable libraries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of extensive involvement in the creation of software frameworks and infrastructure components.
• Strong foundational knowledge in Data Networking complemented by exposure to various Data Center technologies.
• You are a standout teammate, with a can-do attitude, one that takes initiative.
• You are able to work independently as well as in a team.
• You have good interpersonal skills and can work multi-functionally.

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!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

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U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.