Senior Software Engineer || C/C++, Network Security, Switching, Routing , Cloud || 8 -12 years || Bangalore

Who You'll Work With

Cisco Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) are the flagship products from Security Business Group (SBG). NGFW integrates award-winning ASA Firewall services with world’s best and well known IPS engine SNORT in to a high-performance appliance. It is an extremely successful product and continue to lead the market with threat centric focus and market differentiating features. Though we take excellent pride in being market leaders in threat security for long time, we are constantly innovating and improving our solutions to address the constantly evolving 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 the time. Team works on leading security and threat mitigation solutions that are highly scalable and easily manageable. Currently, we are looking for versatile and motivated individual who can work in collective environment and lead to the testing & qualification of Cisco’s next gen firewalls.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for developing new firewall infra features like High availability and Cluster solutions for Next Generation Security Products for Cisco, a market leader in security products and technologies. Also working on virtualization of firewall on public and private clouds
• Work closely with developers and product management teams at various stages such as product starting from idea conceptualization till delivering it to customer
• Extremely motivated engineer, passionate about learning and giving to the team and the business with "can do" attitude
• Develop large scale systems that run sophisticated code in high bandwidth environments
• Strong communication skills, partnership and a confirmed ability to handle challenging high priority tasks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software defects in components that range from kernel modules to applications
• Work closely with a cross functional team and drive/collaborate with other technical leaders/software engineers on system/functional design and architecture of new features
• Dedication to Quality: Ability to ensure and commit to a higher standard of quality than usual in the face of time to market pressures

Who You Are

• BSEE/ MSEE/CS with 8 to 12 years of experience in a software development position.
• Experience in Security and Networking products either building the features or platforms
• Experience in High Availability or Cluster solutions
• Experience in making products on Private and Public cloud platforms
• Fluency in day-to-day Development & Designing (Architectural designing) on Linux OS environment
• Deep understanding of Linux and network resource management
• Experience with CPU/Memory Management/IO and Virtualization technologies
• Strong OS fundamentals, data-path & understanding of performance/space tradeoffs on distributed platforms.
• Solid networking (TCP/IP, Layer 2) knowledge is a requirement
• Strong Programming skills in C/C++, Python, and shell scripts, problem solving skills and debugging the failures to root cause
• Should have a solid understanding of SW quality and processes
• Experience with DPDK library, Data Acquisition (DAQ) library and Vector packet Processing (VPP).
• Experience with working on Open-stack deployment and debugging is a big plus
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with Dockers or other container services is a big plus
• Knowledge of Security Technologies - Firewalls, IPS and Web security.
• Cisco product and NXOS, IOS knowledge is good to have.
• Device driver and kernel module development.
• Agile software development experience.

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