JOB DESCRIPTION

What will you do at Ciena?

The communications networking industry is undergoing transformative change and Ciena is leading the charge with a fresh wave of innovation uniting optical and packet technologies.  As a trusted partner to over 1,000 customers in 60+ countries, Ciena builds networks that fundamentally changes the way our customers compete.  Ciena’s Routing and Switching Products business plays an instrumental role in our strategy and is bringing products and solutions to market that win with the pillars of speed – service delivery, agility, and assurance.

We’re looking for a motivated and talented individual with extensive experience implementing carrier-grade data communications services, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems. You will take an experienced and influential role contributing to system architecture, delivering innovative solutions to meet demanding performance, scalability and feature requirements in support of advanced Carrier Ethernet services, advancing next generation capabilities focused on service providers and global enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage and drive a high performance SW development team – Recruitment, planning, assignment, tracking, performance management and people development.
• Should participate in and drive the requirements, architecture, design and implementation process to ensure a high quality delivery to test teams.
• Help investigate and collect information (metrics) to resolve process issues found on the current or past releases and to improve software quality.
• Drive innovation & take initiatives to improve the SW Dev environment, suggest and drive tools/automation and process development to improve quality of deliverables.

General Activities

• Ensure smooth software lifecycle for all ongoing releases as it goes through various release related gates/milestones.
• Coordinate with local/remote Architecture, Product Marketing, SW engineering and test teams for successful delivery of features
• Prioritize & drive resolution of customer issues actively with customer support teams.
• Attend meetings, report progress and take technical leadership to help drive issue resolution.

Collaboration with stakeholders

• R&D teams.
• PLM and Product Architects.
• 3rd party vendors.
• Program Management.
• Field Support teams.

Experience / Skill Required

• Bachelor’s / Master’s of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• 10+ Years of software development experience including leadership of effective and innovative teams.
• 2+ Years of experience in role of engineering manager for product engineering teams
• Strong Exposure to networking platform bring up (including drivers, BMC, FPGA integration, Linux kernel networking) with proven track record to get new platforms to market with quality
• Experience with various CPU architectures, FPGA and Broadcom Data path (XGS/DNX family) is a bonus.
• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills, effectively able to collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.

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