Software Engineer - Networking/Security/TCP IP/Firewall (1-3 years)

Cisco Next-Generation Fire Power Threat Défense (FTD) is the flagship product from Security Business Group (SBG). FTD integrates aware-willing ASA Firewall services and the world's best and most well-known IPS engine SNORT in to a high-performance appliance. It is an extremely successful product and continues to lead the market with threat centric focus and market-differentiating features. Though we take great pride in being market leaders in threat security for a long time, we are constantly innovating and enhancing our solutions to address the ever-changing threat perceptions and changing data security paradigms so that our customers are always secured. We take our customers' trust in us very seriously and go all the way to ensure we protect their data all times. Our team works on leading security and threat mitigation solutions that are high-performing, scalable and easily manageable.

Currently, the team in India is looking for talented and motivated individuals who can work effectively in a team-oriented environment and lead/contribute to the development and testing of our next-generation firewall technologies.

Who you are

• 2+ years of experience in Networking/Security Domain Testing
• Proficient in - TCP/IP networking and network management, IPv6
• Expertise on - Network security (Intrusion prevention / Intrusion detection / NAT / Access-list / IPSEC and SSL VPN / TLS )
• Experience and knowledge of - Routing & Switching (OSPF / BGP / EIGRP / VLAN / STP / DHCP / multicast)
• Should have worked in Virtual technologies (ESXi, KVM, AWS, Azure, OCI)
• Hands-on experience with Traffic generator tools, Linux, Windows, Packet tracer, Wireshark, and tcpdump Tools
• Familiar with - Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet products preferred
• Strong Automation background on Python/TCL

What You'll Do

• Be a champion for Performance Testing in the organization
• Be an advocate for the Resilient and Scalability of Systems
• Extend our performance engineering framework designing for ease of use for our Engineers
• Define, measure, and publish meaningful metrics to measure product and build performance and help teams improve them.
• Understand priorities and risks and help focus our quality build efforts on where they matter the most.

Skills and core proficiencies you have:

• Strong Software Test background to build and extend our performance framework, understand our product architecture and APIs, make recommendations
• impactful  Performance Testing across the FTD/ASA products.
• Understanding of various technologies, best practices, performance tuning, and impact on production traffic
• Methodical and able to solve performance issues for a root cause
• Provide recommendations and solutions to performance issues found in a product
• Communicate Performance Results that are useful to engineers and understood by management
• Deep knowledge of performance resources - CPUs, Main Memory, Storage Devices, Controllers, Interconnects.
• Hands-on experience with Python/TCL and MySql
• Preferred experience also with Redis, kafka, docker and kubernetes
• Traffic and Data Generation
• Solid Linux skills
• Scripting and strongly typed Languages like python (preferred), bash, ruby, go, java, c#, swift
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred) and cloud automation tooling (Ansible, AWS API, terraform etc.)
• Deep curiosity about how our product works to help drive performance testing to new limits