Senior VIC Networking Firmware Development Lead - UCS VIC Product Line

Senior VIC Networking Firmware Development Lead - UCS VIC Product Line

The Business Entity

The Cisco UCS VIC adapter software development team is looking for an expert software developer, to design and implement I/O solutions for the UCS product family   deployments in modern virtualized data centers. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/interfaces-modules/unified-computing-system-adapters/index.html  http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

The Team

Be part of the Cisco organization that is driving the evolution and expansion into cloud computing. Champion new methodologies and create scalable software solutions that   help build next generation data centers. The ideal candidate demonstrates a deep I/O technical and implementation focus. Broad knowledge of and exposure to embedded   systems, sever architecture and networking software development are essential for success in this role.

Role & Responsibilities

Essential to the role are the capability and the will to learn, understand, implement, improve, explain, promote Cisco VIC based innovative networking technologies. Part of the job are design and development responsibilities in at least one of the following areas:

• Firmware for high speed networking adapters.

• Firmware for PCIe devices or inter-connects

• ASIC based networking features, processing offloads and SmartNIC features for UCS deployments in enterprise/provider virtualized data centers, network edge, cloud and SDN.

• Networking control and management plane protocols, including interactions with the UCS Manager and the Cisco Nexus operating system.

Minimum Qualifications

  The role requires strong working experience in C programming.  The role requires 15+ years of firmware development experience and detailed knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

• Embedded systems software/firmware development for networking adapters

• PCIe sub-systems or inter-connects and SR-IOV

• Networking protocols, including L2 Ethernet switching and TCP/IP

• Data center networking development, such as

   - DCBX/PFC, NIV/802.1BR, QoS, L2/L3 switching

   - forwarding ASICs, ACL, SPAN/ERSPAN, tunneling

   - L4-L7 networking protocols or services including TCP Proxy

   - Load Balancers, network firewalls, network processors

   - NetFlow, VxLAN/NVGRE, OpenFlow, DPDK

• Network device driver development in either Linux, Windows, ESX

• High performance and/or low latency I/O, such as RDMA

• Programmable network accelerators / processing units

About Cisco

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been   since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces,   including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented   disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with   like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the   world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco. 

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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