DevOps Engineer – (Engineering Operations) 

Who we are:

We are the Cisco Secure – Engineering Operations organization, and we are thrilled you are considering joining us! We are on a mission to make our products work together seamlessly, creating a fantastic user experience with less friction, toil, and burden for our users when provisioning, integrating, and administering our products.  We’re expanding and are looking for the founding members of our Bangalore Engineering Tools team.

What you will do:

As a DevOps Engineer you will be guiding & building a set of shared development tooling solutions for the entire Cisco Secure product portfolio, enabling our engineers to be optimally equipped for backend and front-end development. You will be collaborating with engineers, analysing Developer Workflows, and optimizing through new tooling, artificial intelligence and new processes that help improve Developer Productivity. You will help ensure that our developers get fast feedback on their changes, that their local build and test operations match what happens in our continuous integration system and assure that their code passes all tests and quality gates. 

·       Help define and implement best in class Developer Experience tooling - help ensure a smooth and efficient Development Lifecycle, optimize Developer Workflow, improve Developer Confidence, integrate AI into Developer Tooling and automate infrastructure and support of our development backlog, knowledge, source code and build systems. 

·       Work with other software engineering teams to understand their needs and help develop solutions that enable cross-team collaboration while increasing efficient development across the entire software development ecosystem. 

·       Partner with product managers, engineers, and security teams to collect feedback and develop specifications for new cloud-based products/services, applications, and solutions, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. 

·       Design cloud architecture, combining technologies to create optimal solutions for Cisco, and complete plans and specifications to develop solutions. 

·       Drive the roll-out of public and private cloud management platforms, evaluate its performance and implement enhancements. 

·       Learn on the job, every single day and become the best DevOps engineer and quality professional you possibly can be!

Your impact will include: 

·       Enable Cisco Secure product teams to accelerate delivery of value and focus more on innovation 

·       Focus on Engineering organizational transformation 

·       Researching & defining standards and strategy around engineering tooling for Cisco Secure 

·       Building relationships across all of Cisco Secure engineering 

·       Setting up common engineering tooling for Cisco Secure 

·       Helping Cisco Secure Engineering teams migrate to Platform Team tooling standards 

·       Tooling focus will be on SCM, Backlog, Collaboration, Knowledge, Build and CI/CD 

Who you will work with
In this role you will work with all software engineering teams across the Cisco Secure portfolio to understand their needs and help develop solutions that enable cross-team collaboration while increasing efficient development and the security posture across the entire software development ecosystem.  
Our mission is to provide, support and secure a world-class ecosystem of engineering tools, aiming to eliminate friction and toil, foster cross-functional collaboration and deliver an engaging developer experience. The ideal candidate for this role will have a high degree of developer empathy, adaptability, curiosity, ownership and flexibility, work to build relationships with developers, enjoys feedback and enjoys solving difficult problems for improved developer experience.

Who you are:

·       An action-oriented problem solver with a passion for improving and optimizing development workflows. 

·       Use best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Comfortable working independently, receiving guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. 

·       Develop relationships with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships. 

·       Enhance Developer Experience and Productivity; proven backend (python), frontend (node, react) and productivity tooling and improved Developer Workflow. 

·       Leads projects with limited complexity to execute against a defined cloud engineering roadmap. 

·       Implements and supports cloud-based Backlog Management & Source Code Management tools like Jira, GitHub, Copilot, BitBucket, Perforce or Azure DevOps. 

·       Experience driving continuous integration & delivery tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Circle CI and buildbot among others. 

·       Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of application infrastructure cloud services and supporting APIs like AWS (preferred), Azure and Google Cloud Engine. 

·       Container experience with Docker (preferred) and orchestration with Kubernetes 

·       Continuous Configuration Automation tools like Ansible and Terraform. 

·       Scripting and strongly typed languages like python (+1), bash, ruby, go, java, c#, swift 

Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (39 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns, and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!
But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take the difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world-changing? Be you, with us.