Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Cisco Datacenter switching group - Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing - 5 positions

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing (Next Gen Data center Switch)

Job Description:

Participate (in an automation engineer role) on a new project team of engineers involved in testing of Next Generation Data Center switch:

Key areas include:
- Participate and work closely with developers at various stages fspec, design reviews to develop testplans,tools,utilities.
- Write detail feature testplans, Design Test bed design, test topologies.
- Develop Tcl/Expect scripts for automated testing.
· Investigate script failures in automated testbeds; modify scripts/libraries and log product defects as needed.
· Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis.
· Develop and maintain Tcl/Expect libraries used to control switches, routers, and traffic generators.
· Assist other devtest engineers in script development efforts by performing code reviews and assisting in debugging efforts.
· Initiate and participate in efforts to improve group productivity and test effectiveness.
· Provide feedback and contribute in test plan development, resource allocation planning, and test process definition/improvement.

Skills required:
Preferred :Strong Platform, infrastructure test experience with good understanding for the data path of routers/switches. Cat6k experience would be an added advantage. In addition to this good exposure to layer2 and layer 3 protocols is required and experience with using test tools from IXIA, spirent, Agilent is required.

Automation will span white box, feature tests, general utilities,Protocol conformance, latency,performance, stress, scale tools and end to end system testing.


Platform: packet flow debugging experience with multi layer switches, troubleshooting platform features like powersupply/Fan/LC bringup/Temperature Sensor, HA, SMP (symmetric Multi processing), Kernel debugging, IPC, Threads, GDB, Sockets

Layer 3: OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, QOS, Traffic engineering, Policy Based routing, PIM,Gateway routing protocol, VRRP, DVMRP.

Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++

Traffic tools: IXIA, Spirent, Smartbits, Agilent Router Tester, QA Robot, Cisco PagentTest Harness: Cisco ATS, ATS Easy, eARMS
Interop: Exposure to Juniper, Foundry, Nortel, Cisco 7200, 7600,Catalyst 6500, GSR, HFR routers.

· Hands-on experience testing Cisco switches or routers using autotest , ATS EASY, is a plus· Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with different test, development, and support groups.
· Must be able to handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial oversight.
· Typically requires MSEE/CS combined with 4-5 years of related experience or BSEE/CS combined with 6-8+ years experience
Skills:
Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++

Cisco Unified Computing Group - Senior Product Marketing Manager - Outbound OS & Virtualization Partner Support

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Cisco's Unified Computing Group is actively looking to hire a Senior Product Marketing Manager - Outbound supporting our OS & Virtualization Partners.

A majority of this individual’s time will be spent on Microsoft (~60%). The remaining 40% would be spread across VMware, Red Hat, Novell, and Citrix.

Opportunity Snapshot
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the Product Marketing team within Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Team. Become a key part of Cisco’s Data Center strategy. Cisco is looking for a dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial product marketing manager to play a key role in driving marketing strategy and execution between Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) and Microsoft.


We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Key responsibilities:
The Senior Product Marketing Manager will work closely with Microsoft to drive joint solutions and marketing programs. Primary activities include collateral development, demand generation programs, go-to-market planning and coordination across Cisco organizations. This individual will work closely with Product Management, Technical Marketing, Central Marketing, Corporate Communications and Field Marketing to support joint go-to-market engagement and planning. You will make final decisions to ensure effective achievement of UCS objectives. The Senior Product Marketing Manager for partner ecosystems insures positive working relationship with and coordination between development efforts of the business unit, marketing planning efforts of the Central Marketing Organization, and field and channel enablement. Represents Cisco and Cisco products to internal/external organizations, customers and press, etc. Determines and drives short and mid-term strategic objectives.

Skills:
Job Requirements:

Ideally we are looking for product marketing experience in Microsoft Applications or OS or Virtualization ( Microsoft , Redhat or VMware )
1) Ten plus years of experience in product marketing management with a technical background in server technologies, data center infrastructures and applications and a good understanding of the
industry is a must. Any of the following areas will be considered:(networks, storage systems and storage networking; server operating systems; virtualization technologies for network, storage and server; management)

Friday, December 11, 2009

Senior Hardware Board design engineer - High speed Switch or router hardware

Job Title: Senior Hardware Board Design Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Hardware System design experience in a networking company is a must (Schematics caputre Orcad, Bring-up, board design)

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Opportunity Snapshot
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the hardware engineering team of SAVBU - Cisco's latest acquisition in the Data Center space. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team. Thus, you set your own limits for learning and achievements.
We are looking for a motivated Hardware Engineer to contribute to the development of our next generation product.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html

Job Requirements:
1) X86 multi-core processor system design and PCB layout.
2) 10G SFI and XFI system design and PCB layout.
3) PCIe Gen1 and Gen2 protocol and physical layer.
4) 8G FCOe protocol and physical layer.
5) DDR3 memory system design and PCB layout.
Hands on board design experience familiar with design tools including Cadence Concept, and Allegro
Familiar with high speed design signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques and modern processors
Knowledge of multi Gigabit serial busses like PCI-E, DDR2, DDR3, hyper transport.
Experience with lab bring up and design validation on products
Ability to interface with other disciplines, including software, mechanical and signal integrity
Demonstrated experience with shipping products
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Job will require design, and lab work
Minimum of 3+ years of experience with BSEE, or MSEE
Skills:
Hardware board design experience
Networking productline - hardware
Board design, Orcad Schematics capture
Board bring up
High speed switch or router design

Cisco Unified Computing System job - Technical Lead - MP Server EFI OS / BIOS development (Intel Nehalem)

Title: Technical Lead - MP Server EFI OS / BIOS software engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

We have a very urgent need for techical lead/senior software engineer to engage in the area of the energey management/thermal management, EFI/OS development and various other complex EFI/OS issues

Organization:
(SAVBU) Server Access Virtualization Business Unit seeks an experience Senior Software Engineer to define, design and build products for the next generation of data center server access and virtualization.

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and gain experience in a broad range of systems hardware, including multi-core CPUs, operating systems like Linux and other kernels, all of which are at the forefront of design and industry in terms of technical relevance. The job involves working on a cutting edge next generation data center server product. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced startup like environment.

Responsibilities:.
The ideal candidate demonstrates a system-level focus while understanding the impact of every component. Broad knowledge of and experience on x86 server hardware and pre-OS booting software. Design & develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•Seven plus years of experience in BIOS/EFI/UEFI SW development.
. In depth experience in EFI OS development, Issue fixing in EFI (Intel Nehalem Platform)
. QPI Experience
. Intel Energy Management / Thermal Management
•Ten plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•Five plus years of in depth experience with x86 server systems.
•Hands on experience on x86 server systems bring up are desired.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting debugging skills.
•Experience using of ITP debugger a plus.
• Candidate must possess excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred

Cisco UCS Manager job - Technical Lead - System Software Development (System Management - HP Virtual Connect, Alcatel-lucent SAM or Bladelogic)

Job Title: Technical Lead - System Software development - Virtualization, system management
Location: San Jose, CA

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build software for recently launched Cisco UCS Series Blade Servers. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html
Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of technologies including Virtualization, system management software development of storage, networking, and cutting edge storage technologies.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in cross-functional teamwork and expose to all facets of the software development cycle from innovation, marketing requirement to product delivery.

Responsibilities:
This candidate will be responsible for delivering system level functionality of a large, enterprise class resource management system.


Required Skills:
•Five plus years of Management systems experience (Network Management, Systems Management, Datacenter Automation)
•Five plus years of system software experience, in a linux platform enviorment.
•Five plus years of C/C++ coding.
•Five plus years of experience with object oriented systems.
•Experience with meta-model-driven systems
•Experience with model-driven architectures
•Familiarity with XML (and adjacent technologies like XPath, XQuery, XSLT, SOAP)
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.
Skills:
Virtualization
Systems Management
Network Management
Storage or Security Management software
Alcatel SAM or HP Virtual Connect or HP Opsware or Veritas or Sun Systems Management software experence or IBM System Management experience

Cisco Unified Computing System job - Tech Lead - Windows Driver - I/O Virtualization

Job Title: Technical Lead - I/O Virtualization - Windows (Networking Drivers)

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Location: San Jose, CA or Texas

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build software for with industry-leading services and performance, for a new and exciting datacenter product line.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.htmlhtml

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of technologies including high performance system software that specializes in optimized software for IO. In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in cross-functional teamwork and exposure to all facets of the software development cycle from innovation, marketing requirement to product delivery.

Responsibilities:
This candidate will be responsible for being conversant with the tools, paradigms and API’s needed for developing high performance system software for Windows platforms. Influence the design of interfaces between products to ensure interoperability. Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

The group is working on a highly differentiated IO device which is an integral part of the Cisco server offerings. The device provides best in class performance along with unmatched virtualization capabilities. The initial requirements are:

Required Skills:
1.Minimum 3 plus years experience developing system software for various Windows platforms
2.Experience with HP Virtual Connect or Dell Flexaddress a plus.
3. Familiar with Windows driver model, low level C, C++ and assembly programming
3.General operating systems software expertise
4.Experience with hardware platforms (x86) is a strong requirement
5.Familiarity with Storport drivers is a bonus
6.Familiarity with NDIS 5.0, 6.0, 6.2 desired
7.Use of debuggers, ICE, VTune etc is desired.
8.Familiarity with Ethernet networking and Fibre channel is a bonus.
9.BSCS/BSCE degree is required; MS CS/CE is preferred
Skills:
Low level driver development on HP Virtual Connect
Windows Driver development NDIS Storport
Windows Kernel
Networking device driver
I/O Virtualization

Cisco Nexus Datacenter Switch job - Software Engineer - QoS development

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Software Engineer - Layer 2 QoS development
Location: San Jose, CA

Organization:
This is an excellent opportunity to join SAVBU - Cisco Unified computing Product group. The job involves working on a cutting edge data center switch. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment.

Required Skills:
•3-10 plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•Three plus years of experience in design and development in networking applications.
•Hands on experience on Layer 2 Switch QoS development
•Minimum Three - five years of related work experience is required.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred.

Cisco Nexus Datacenter job - Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kernel / OS / U-Boot / Driver

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Switch Platform Software Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Organization:
This is an excellent opportunity to join SAVBU - Cisco Unified computing Product group. The job involves working on a cutting edge data center switch. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment.

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in new Layer 3 project as part of the software engineering team of SAVBU. Become a key part of Cisco’s Data Center strategy. Cisco is looking for a dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial product manager to play a key role in driving marketing strategy and execution with the Unified Computing System (UCS) partner ecosystem.
We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Responsibilities:
Participate on a project team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation data center switch product family, with emphasis in platform development ine, architect, design, and deliver new software and features for the UCS product line. You will be exposed to great design methodologies using finite state machines and various in-house tools/libraries. Work also involves providing constant feedback to hardware and software teams for improvements. Write complete functional and design specs independently. Write portions of product spec. Lead development of subsystems. Design & Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•3-10 plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•3-10 plus years of in-depth experience designing networking systems with knowledge of any of the following: Platform/uboot/kernel/board bring up/drivers.
•Three plus years of experience in design and development in networking applications.
•Hands on experience on Device Drivers and with three to ten years of overall software platform expertise.
In depth experience and expertise with ASIC hardware bringup/MAC/PHY programming
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Minimum five years of related work experience is required.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch - Senior Software Engineer - Switch Infrastructure

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 Switch Infrastructure (Interface Manager, Routing Table Manager)
Location: San Jose, CA

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build a flexible, scalable framework for your new data center network with Cisco Nexus Switches

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Required Skills:
•Three plus years of experience with embedded Software experience.
-Three to ten years of overall software experience
- Experience in Switch Infrastructure development ( Interface Manager, Routing Table Manager )
•In depth Layer 2 protocol experience in Ethernet switching (any of the following protocols; VLAN, LACP,STP, IGMP, Multicast)
•Strong C programming skills.
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.

Desired Skills:
Experience with any of the following areas is a plus:
•RTOS embedded experience ( VxWorks, PSOS, Linux OS)
•Hands on experience on switch/router embedded system software development.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Experience w/ IP routing (any routing protocols)

Cisco Nexus 5000 switch - Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 Forwarding Software

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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 or Layer 3 Forwarding software
Location: San Jose, CA

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build a flexible, scalable framework for your new data center network with Cisco Nexus Switches

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of the core Layer 2 technologies. This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco’s latest acquisition in the Data Center space. The job involves working on a cutting edge storage product. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start like environment.
The work involves design and development in customized networking environment for some key system software.
You will be part of a fast paced team responsible for delivering quality code for large complex systems requirements. Open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team with "pay for performance" culture. Thus, you set your own limits for learning, achievements and rewards.

Responsibilities:
Participate on a project team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation data center switch product family, with emphasis in the layer 2 protocols area. Define, architect, design, and deliver new software protocols and features for the Nexus platform. Work also involves providing constant feedback to hardware and software teams for improvements. Write complete functional and design specs independently. Write portions of product spec. Design & Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•Three plus years of experience with embedded Software experience.
-Three to ten years of overall software experience
- Forwarding Software Development
•In depth Layer 2 protocol experience in Ethernet switching (any of the following protocols; VLAN, LACP,STP, IGMP, Multicast)
•Strong C programming skills.
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.

Desired Skills:
Experience with any of the following areas is a plus:
•RTOS embedded experience ( VxWorks, PSOS, Linux OS)
•Hands on experience on switch/router embedded system software development.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Experience w/ IP routing (any routing protocols)