The application window is expected to close on: March 21, 2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team This is an exciting opportunity to join our Cisco Security Chief Technology Office (CTO) team focused on building new innovation as we take a platform centric approach to the next generation data center. Our Security Innovation team is creating winning solutions for workload orchestration for our customers that focus on ease of use and integrate identity, security, networking, and management services from Cisco’s entire portfolio.

Your Impact In this role, you will drive the develop or a new workload platform leveraging Kubernetes, Cilium and Kubevirt with a focus on ease of use. You’ll collaborate with industry leading internal Cisco teams, like Isovalent, with the goal of making our platform’s network seamlessly co-exist with customer’s existing network topology. You’ll also partner with our AI Software & Platform team to leverage agentic AI for running playbook/automation to simplify migration of workloads and integrations from existing workload platforms to our platform.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years or Master’s degree with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of platform software development experience to including programming with GoLang or equivalent experienceDemonstrated experience using Kubernetes for automating, scaling and managing workload applications. Demonstrated experience with open-source operating systems such as Linux Demonstrate experience using database management tools such as SQL
Preferred QualificationsExperience with remote procecure calls (RPCs) like gRPC, Thrift and JSON RPC Experience with tools such as Cilium, Kubevirt, KVM and eBPF Experience with VMware vSphere and NSX Experience with platforms like OpenShift Experience with open-source tools like OpenStack

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