Job Description

SONiC Developer / Senior SONiC Developer

Experience: 4–9Years

Location: Chennai / Bangalore

Job Description

Capgemini is looking for an experienced SONiC Developer with strong expertise in SONiC networking, Embedded Linux, C/C++, Linux kernel and network platform development.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience developing and integrating SONiC-based networking platforms, debugging Linux kernel and hardware-related issues, and working with networking hardware including ASICs, DSPs, FPGAs and Ethernet devices. Experience with low-level hardware interfaces and L0/L1 optical networking platforms will be highly valuable.

Roles & Responsibilities

Develop, customize, integrate, and maintain SONiC-based networking solutions.
Develop and enhance networking and platform software using C and C++.
Design, develop, and maintain software for L0/L1 optical networking products running on Embedded Linux platforms.
Perform board bring-up, BSP/platform integration, hardware-software integration, and validation activities.
Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux kernel drivers and platform services.
Analyze and resolve Linux kernel issues including kernel panics, crashes, performance bottlenecks, and patch-related issues.
Integrate and validate hardware components including ASICs, DSPs, FPGAs, Flash, and Ethernet devices.
Work with low-level hardware interfaces such as I2C, SPI, PCIe, GPIO, UART, SerDes, and SGMII.
Develop, customize, and support SONiC platform services, containers, and networking features.
Debug and troubleshoot SONiC networking, routing, switching, and platform-related issues.
Work with SONiC database architecture, including Configuration DB, State DB, and Redis.
Perform platform-level debugging and root-cause analysis across hardware, kernel, driver, and application layers.
Collaborate with hardware, validation, testing, networking, and system integration teams.
Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, unit/integration testing, and release activities.
Support customer issues, production deployments, defect analysis, and root-cause investigations.
Contribute to feature enhancements, performance optimization, scalability, stability, and product reliability improvements

Job Description - Grade Specific

Focus on Connectivity and Network Engineering. Fully competent in own area. Acts as a key contributor in a more complexor critical environment. Proactively acts to understand and anticipates client needs. Manages costs and profitability for a work area. Manages own agenda to meet agreed targets. Develop plans for projects in own area. Looks beyond the immediate problem to the wider implications. Acts as a facilitator, coach and moves teams forward.

Senior Connectivity & Network Engineer