Job Description
- 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
Role: System Administrator / Engineer
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering - Hardware & Networks
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: IT Network
Education
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate
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About Company
Cisco has been active in India since 1995 and is a major contributor to the country's digital growth. India serves as Cisco’s second-largest research and development hub outside the U.S. The company supports digital initiatives in sectors like agriculture, education, and transportation. Through the Cisco Networking Academy, it also helps skill India’s tech workforce. In 2024, Cisco launched its first manufacturing unit in Chennai, aiming to boost local production and exports. This facility is expected to generate over $1.3 billion annually and create more than 1,200 jobs.
