Infrastructure Appliance Specialist

Who We Are

As a part of Cisco, Accedian is a leader in performance analytics and end user experience solutions for service providers and mid-to-large size enterprises. The Accedian Skylight service assurance platform offers granular end-to-end visibility within "the massive multi" - multi-layer, multi-domain, and multi-vendor networks. Accedian's open and scalable platform removes roadblocks to innovation, enabling cloud-native analytics and empowering customers to launch new assured services based on 5G, SD-WAN, and edge technologies.

Who You Are

You are an expert in deployment and network operations, skilled in using scripts and automation tools to enhance software processes. With a passion for scripting and automation, you contribute to effective software strategies, oversee maintenance, and optimize systems. Proficient with Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, you seek new ways to monitor deployment health and performance. Your proactive nature and dedication to tech excellence make you a valuable team member in operational efficiency and reliability.

Who You'll Work With

Our team prioritizes your growth in technical, business, and soft skills within a culture that values team strength and investment. We adopt a "You build it, you run it" approach, empowering team members to actively manage and improve our software. Committed to continuous learning, we support mastering new technologies and champion a culture of ambition and innovation in cloud computing.

What You’ll Do

Our growing team is looking for dedicated Infrastructure Appliance Specialist to work with a small, innovative team of industry experts to help perfect our platform by improving our automation processes around deployment and operations with a strong focus on turnkey solutions used by our customers.

You will take charge of enhancing the product life cycle, manage configuration, assist in deployment and scripting for management purposes, and collaborate within a cross-functional team. Your responsibility will be to spearhead the initiatives and orchestrate the DevOps cycle. Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring our cloud and Customer On-Premise infrastructure: Assessing its health to offer 24/7 service to our customers.
• Participating in system troubleshooting: and recommend improvements to our platform and tools, regular and systematic code testing, and deployment.
• Supporting our public cloud deployments: Research, propose and participate in the implementation of security best practices for public cloud deployments and data management.
• Prioritizing and escalating: Raising problems to Development, collaborating with our Operations lead and on-call engineer to investigate operational issues impacting users and identify root causes.
• Driving automation development: Build configuration management tools and scripts to address operational incidents.
• Improving our Security posture: Enforce policies for environment security and their application to our DevOps tools.
• Improving our Security posture: Enforce policies for environment security and their application to our DevOps tools.
• Automating build pipelines: Integrating OS updates into deployable images that are tested and validated before release to the field.
  
  

Please note this role may require on-call availability as part of the larger team rotation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ or more years of related experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or a role in a related field.
• 7+ or more years of managing Virtualization platforms (VMWare, Nutanix, OpenShift) using UNIX/LINUX command line and scripting.
• 5+ years of deploying multi-service applications on Private and Public Clouds (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure) using a modern toolset.
• 5+ year of experience in shipping applications as an appliance and IT support experience focused on handling and troubleshooting system-wide solutions.
• Experience in developing continuous monitoring and automated alerting systems to ensure the stability and reliability of IT systems.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, or similar.
• Bachelors in a STEM related discipline.
• A deep understanding of Docker containerization and orchestration, with Kubernetes experience.
• Strong Understanding of hardware components, interest in x86 or AMD architecture and sub-system design, including CPU/memory/PCIe and RAID/Networking technologies and embedded controllers, UEFI knowledge including managing firmware lifecycle
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewall management.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management solutions; experience with HashiCorp Terraform and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Ability to write and speak French.
  
  

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

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! #WeAreCisco