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Cisco Nexus Dashboard is the unified operations platform designed to simplify and accelerate data center management. Built on a robust, Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, it serves as a single pane of glass for the Cisco data center portfolio, including ACI and Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). By integrating sophisticated telemetry, orchestration, and policy management services, the platform empowers organizations to streamline their operational workflows, enhance visibility, and ensure consistent configuration and security across diverse physical and virtual environments.

The Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team serves as the backbone of our platform, engineering the critical services that ensure stability, security, and seamless lifecycle management for our global data center customers. By managing the core Kubernetes-based architecture, our team provides the crucial foundation upon which advanced orchestration, telemetry, and policy services are built and scaled. We are a fast-paced, dynamic group of engineers who thrive on collaboration and constant innovation, working closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges in real-time. We cultivate a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence, making this the ideal environment for engineers who are passionate about building robust, high-scale infrastructure.

Joining Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team means operating at the groundbreaking of platform technologies, where you will have the opportunity to directly influence the future of data center automation and platform reliability.

• Core Platform Engineering: Architect and maintain the core infrastructure of the Nexus Dashboard, a Kubernetes-based platform, ensuring high availability and performance across its integrated data stack, including PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
• Cluster Lifecycle Management: Oversee the full deployment lifecycle of multi-node clusters, including automated installation, configuration, and seamless inline software upgrades across diverse physical and virtual form factors.
• System Reliability & Observability: Develop and support critical infrastructure services, including robust backup and restore frameworks, automated anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit logging to ensure platform reliability and operational transparency.
• Security & Identity Infrastructure: Implement and manage enterprise-grade security protocols, focusing on centralized Authentication and Authorization (AAA) and end-to-end certificate lifecycle management for both cluster-level and microservice-level communications.
• Scalability & Performance Optimization: Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to optimize platform scalability and resource efficiency, ensuring the Nexus Dashboard remains a resilient and performant foundation for data center telemetry and orchestration services.

• Bachelors +7 years related experience or Masters +4 years of related experience.
• Experience programming in languages such as Go and Python, including leveraging AI-assisted development tools to write, test, and optimize code.
• Experience with rapid prototyping of AI solutions and AI workflow/agent engineering.
• Experience in developing, deploying, and managing microservices on Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing robust test plans to ensure software quality, reliability, and coverage across all use cases.

• Proficiency in Linux system internals, including process management, file systems, and networking.
• Understanding of distributed databases and messaging systems, such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Kafka.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard est la plateforme d'operations unifiees concue pour simplifier et accelerer la gestion du centre de donnees. Fonde sur une architecture de microservices robuste basee sur Kubernetes, il sert d'interface unique pour la gamme de centres de donnees de Cisco, y compris ACI et Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). En integrant des services sophistiques de telemetrie, d'orchestration et de gestion des politiques, la plateforme permet aux entreprises de simplifier leurs flux de travail operationnels, d'ameliorer la visibilite et d'assurer une configuration et une securite coherentes dans divers environnements physiques et virtuels.

L'equipe d'infrastructure Nexus Dashboard est le reseau federateur de notre plateforme, concevant les services essentiels qui assurent la stabilite, la securite et une gestion transparente du cycle de vie pour nos clients de centre de donnees mondiaux. En gerant l'architecture de base basee sur Kubernetes, notre equipe fournit la base cruciale sur laquelle l'orchestration avancee, la telemetrie et les services de politiques sont concus et evoluent. Nous sommes un groupe d'ingenieurs percutants et dynamiques qui s'epanouissent dans la collaboration et l'innovation constante et qui travaillent en etroite collaboration avec des equipes interfonctionnelles pour resoudre des problemes infrastructure complexes en temps reel. Nous cultivons une culture de l'apprentissage continu et de l'excellence technique, ce qui en fait un environnement ideal pour les ingenieurs passionnes par la construction d'infrastructures robustes et a grande echelle.

Se joindre a l'equipe infrastructure de Nexus Dashboard, c'est etre a la pointe des technologies de plateforme, ou vous aurez l'occasion d'influencer directement l'avenir de l'automatisation des centres de donnees et de la fiabilite des plateformes.
Ingenierie de la plateforme de base : concevoir et maintenir l' infrastructure de base du tableau de bord Nexus , une plateforme basee sur Kubernetes, en veillant a ce que la pile de donnees integree, y compris PostgreSQL, OpenSearch et Kafka, dispose d'une disponibilite et d'un rendement eleves.
Gestion du cycle de vie des clusters : superviser le cycle de vie complet du deploiement des clusters multinuds, y compris l'installation automatisee, la configuration et les mises a niveau logicielles en ligne transparentes dans divers facteurs de forme physiques et virtuels.
Fiabilite et observabilite du systeme : developper et soutenir des services d'infrastructure essentiels, y compris des cadres de sauvegarde et de restauration robustes , la detection automatisee des anomalies et des journaux d'audit complets pour assurer la fiabilite de la plateforme et la transparence operationnelle.
Infrastructure de securite et d'identite : Implementer et gerer des protocoles de securite de niveau entreprise, en se concentrant sur l'authentification et l'autorisation (AAA ) centralisees et la gestion du cycle de vie des certificats de bout en bout pour les communications au niveau du cluster et du microservice.
Evolutivite et optimisation du rendement : collaborer avec des equipes d'ingenierie interfonctionnelles pour optimiser l'evolutivite de la plateforme et l'efficacite des ressources, en veillant a ce que le tableau de bord Nexus reste une base resiliente et performante pour les services de telemetrie et d'orchestration des centres de donnees.

Un baccalaureat avec 7 ans d'experience connexe ou une maitrise avec 4 ans d'experience connexe.
Experience en programmation dans des langages tels que Go et Python, y compris l'utilisation d'outils de developpement assistes par intelligence artificielle pour ecrire, tester et optimiser le code.
Experience du prototypage rapide des solutions d'intelligence artificielle et de l'ingenierie des flux de travail et des agents d'intelligence artificielle.
Experience du developpement, du deploiement et de la gestion de microservices sur des plateformes d'orchestration basees sur Kubernetes.
Experience dans la conception et la mise en uvre de plans de test robustes pour assurer la qualite, la fiabilite et la couverture des logiciels dans tous les scenarios.

Maitrise du fonctionnement interne du systeme Linux, y compris la gestion des processus, des systemes de fichiers et de la mise en reseau.
Comprehension des bases de donnees distribuees et des systemes de messagerie, comme PostgreSQL, OpenSearch et Kafka.
Experience des pipelines CI/CD.

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Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.