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Job Title - Senior SW Systems Engineer -Golang Networking Developer
Business Unit: Cloud Engineering Team
Experience Level: 5 to 10+ years
Skills: Sustenance, deployment, Troubleshooting, Golang, Kubernetes,
Location: Chennai
Job description:
In this role, as an individual contributor - Staff SW Systems Engineer, you will work within the software engineering team to troubleshoot/debug network issues, fix defects, and design, develop and unit test software feature enhancements.
A strong technical background in layer 2 and layer 3 forwarding is required to diagnose and solve complex technical issues and provide timely solutions to customers in a professional manner.
Responsibilities:
· Participate in the design, implementation, testing, maintenance, enhancement, and support of software modules for the Extreme EFA (Extreme Fabric Automation) platform.
· Bring your strong technical skills as an individual contributor to code and unit tests in containerized microservices-based architecture.
· Participate in troubleshooting calls with customers and interact with various teams to address software issues in a timely manner.
· Analyze the tech support data of Extreme routing/switching products to isolate the software defects
· Develop and unit test the defect fixes and work with the release teams to quickly deliver the code updates to customers.
· Analyze requirements, design, develop and deliver high-quality Software using the latest technologies and innovations in a timely manner.
· Understand customer requirements and translate them into engineering requirements. Review and sign off on requirements documents.
· Write functional and design specification documents and drive sign-off.
· Interface with developers, QA, Documentation & Customer Support teams as needed.
· Architect, design, develop, test, or troubleshoot features or functions.
· Interact cross-functionally on matters that require coordination across organization lines.
· Participate in full product life cycle development.
· Interface with Support/Customers during escalations and drive issues to completion
· Lead the efforts to improve the debuggability of EFA and related Extreme Service Provider products suite.
· Work on software bug fixes and map fixes to the software maintenance releases.
· Work on design, specification coding, and unit testing of software feature enhancement requests from Extreme customers.
· Work with various teams, including release, software development, hardware, and technical publications to provide an excellent customer experience in a timely manner.
· Simulate customer network topology and traffic in the lab to reproduce the customer issues.
Qualifications and Skills Required :
· BS/MS or equivalent experience required.
· Minimum 5 years experience in system software development preferably in the networking domain
· Proficient in Golang, Python, Shell Scripting
· Experience in Cloud Native technologies involving Microservices, Dockers, Golang, Kubernetes, Helm Chart, Jenkins, CI, CD
· Experience working with SQL/NoSQL Databases like MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis
· Experience in working with various message brokers like rabbitmq,NATS,Kafka
· Experience in Deployment of Kubernetes Applications on a large scale with horizontal scaling.
· Should have experience in RPC frameworks like GRPC
· Experience with Jira/JIRA/GIT-based CI/CD pipeline.
· Hands-on in troubleshooting and root-causing issues with docker containerized applications in networking and/or virtualized server deployments.
· 5+ years of software development experience in the networking industry
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
· Experience in debugging issues in Linux-based virtualized and containerized application deployment.
· Strong experience in Routing & Switching (TCP/IP, Ethernet, DHCP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, VLAN , STP, VxLAN, LACP).
· Experience with REST/Netconf a plus.
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