Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Virtual Infrastructure)
Cisco Meraki’s vision:
Simplicity. At Cisco Meraki, we believe that by simplifying powerful technology we can free passionate people to focus on their mission. Our cloud-managed products are making IT easier, faster, and smarter. Simplified and smarter networking means that businesses run more smoothly, and more people have reliable access to the information they need.
About the team:
Cisco Meraki’s MX product family are multifunctional security and SD-WAN appliances. You’ll join the vMX (Virtual MX) team, who is specifically responsible for our vMX offering: a virtual appliance that can be deployed in both public and private clouds. With 1M+ physical and virtual nodes deployed, serving 10M+ people, quality is our highest priority. The vMX team delivers powerful, scalable solutions that meet that standard.
What you will do:
As a technical leader on the vMX team, you will be a part of a growing group of engineers passionate about crafting and implementing the architecture of the vMX product that runs on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. We are looking for a hands-on, experienced engineer who can analyze the current architecture, feature sets, and tech debt and work to improve them for the existing architecture as well as for the next generation! You will partner with product management and engineering leadership to define the technical roadmap for our virtual platforms.
An area of focus in this role will be centered on being our go-to person for stabilizing our current vMX architecture. We are looking for an experienced technical leader with deep engineering expertise in hands-on development and maintenance of our vMX deployments on Azure, GCP, AWS cloud hypervisors.
The experience we look for in your background:
- 8+ years of experience with data plane forwarding, packet processing, and control-plane configuration/signaling for virtualized routing/SD-WAN/Security products.
- 8+ years of experience with writing both Linux kernel and user space code for embedded networking applications or similar such as C, C++, Rust, Go, etc. (The interview process requires C and C++ knowledge.)
- In-depth knowledge in developing, deploying, and solving virtualized products on-premises on QEMU, KVM, VMWare, and in the cloud on AWS, Azure, GCP, etc
- In-depth experience with DevOps and can advise/implement standard methodologies in CI / CD for cloud deployment
- Hands-on design experience with more than one software data plane technology across ARM and x86, such as DPDK, VPP, or Click.
- L4 to L7 services (Load balancing, Firewall, IPsec VPN, NAT, IPv6, remote access, and various tunneling protocols), architectures, and algorithms.
- Strong technical leadership with excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-functional group
- Phenomenal teammate, a thoughtful mentor with a can-do attitude, and takes initiative
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with Yocto, Buildroot, or other embedded Linux build tooling
- Experience with merchant silicon SDKs from Broadcom, Marvell, EZchip, etc.
- Distributed packet processing across virtual and/ or fabric architecture
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