Senior Software Engineer - Operations Hub Development

You are a senior software engineer who believes in creating customer delight thru simple and easy to use solutions. The ideal candidate must enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment with a take-charge / can-do attitude and is able to demonstrate flexibility and resiliency. Successful candidate must be self-sufficient and be able to work with minimal supervision. Work with geographically distributed teams across different time zones.

What you'll Do

• Build high performant platform middleware, highly scalable, complex systems - end to end
• Contribute to a future-ready, high quality, and performant code base.
• Bring technical solutions to the leadership team, feedback on solutions recommended, new product ideas with the team through design review, pair programming, code review and tech talk.
• Develop simple solutions to address complex problems. Explore Third Party/Open-Source software.

Who you'll Work With

• Work closely with platform/application development, test and with various cross technology teams to design development strategies and plans followed by designing & writing code reflecting the requirements and functionality of the product.
• Work with other functions such as Architects, Product owners/customers, Quality Engineering to help prioritize, define, and implement features with the right quality.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of a team of engineers involved in the development and testing of software for our Cable Automation and Orchestration architecture.
• Operate in an Agile methodology with an eye toward robust and disciplined software security development.
• Contribute to Third party/Open-source software evaluation. Review security portions and vulnerabilities of the third part software and address them.
• Strong ability and desire to learn new tools and technologies as required is an absolute must.
• Develop and improve automated vulnerability tests, package composition analysis, enforcement of security coding standards with CI/CD build eco system (eg Jenkins, dockers, Ansible, maven, gradle), programming languages and security tools (eg Rapid7, BurpSuite, Black duck, Static Analysis)
• Gap analysis and alignment of [SMARTPHY/OPSHUB apps and services] compliance with security standards (eg ISO, PII/GDPR, FIPS, DoD, NIST SP800, UCAPL), Cisco security baselines, customer RFPs, and vulnerability scan reports. Familiarity with security protocols and algorithms.
• Conduct threat modelling, monitor and analyze vulnerability exposure of [SMARTPHY/OPSHUB apps and services]. Identify threats, defects and weakness in systems and design. Review and improve product security hardening and configuration documentations.
• Lead and automate the lifecycle management and refresh of third party software and certificates

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficient with software development in at least two programming languages (eg, Java, Python, GO). Develop and improve automated vulnerability tests, package composition analysis.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Kafka, Cassendra, POD-level debugging
• Enforcement of security coding standards with CI/CD build eco system (eg Jenkins, dockers, Ansible, maven, gradle), programming languages and security tools (eg Rapid7, BurpSuite, Black duck, Static Analysis).
• Experience with Linux, package management, operations, Third Party Software (TPS), monitoring and analyzing vulnerability exposure, and Identifying threats in systems and design.
• Experience in or passion for microservices architecture and building a PaaS solution.
• Expert in use of standard SCM tools (Git) and CI/CD (Jenkins / Maven, etc) process.
• Strong motivation to innovate and improve customer and product experience.
• Strong problem solving and software development / troubleshooting skills. Ability to "think in code" and discuss ideas and algorithms is a must.
• Past experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment. Familiarity with Cisco SMI and Operations Hub platforms, or any other PaaS solutions, is a plus.