JOB DESCRIPTION

How You Will Contribute:

Ciena is 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 Layer2/Layer3 datapath architecture, QoS & infrastructure features, delivering innovative solutions to meet demanding performance, scalability and feature requirements in support of advanced Carrier Ethernet services, advancing next generation HQOS & MEF capabilities focused on service provider, carrier grade capability.

Develop Dataplane features and capabilities in areas of Port, VLAN (Q-in-Q), MAC, MSTP, Ethernet Pause, DHCP L2 relay/snoop, L2/L3 forwarding & Packet processing, Traffic Management - Ingress/Egress QoS / HQOS, ACL, MEF services, RFC 2544, L2CFT, L2 Transforms etc.
Author and contribute in Layer2/Layer3 datapath architecture and QoS/infrastructure features including software design, development, validation, and documentation to deliver high quality, functionally excellent products.
Contribute to integration with enabling technologies including third party software BCM SDK, existing platform and hardware capabilities.
Troubleshoot and fix reported issues in Dataplane areas. Identify root cause, diagnose, debug and deliver robust timely fixes.
Provide basic status reporting for own work.
Continuous learning and development of skills in advanced Dataplane, QoS & Infrastructure features: Port/VLAN Management, Traffic Management Ingress/Egress H-QOS, Bandwidth sharing, Packet processing, Link scanning, Ethernet services and network virtualization.

The Must Haves:

Strong C programming skills with strong debugging and trouble shooting skills over Linux platform.
Strong experience in Port/VLAN Management, MSTP, Ethernet Pause, DHCP L2 relay/snoop,? L2 Protocols Datapath, MAC learning, 802.1Q, 802.1ad, 802.1p, MEF services, Ethernet QoS such as metering, coloring, CoS mapping, scheduling, shaping, congestion avoidance, MEF 10.2/10.3, performance monitoring etc.
Carrier class product design and delivery experience with Access & Aggregation Switches/Routers designed for Service Provider deployments.
Exposure to traffic generators such as Ixia or Spirent.

The Good to Haves:

Exposure to end-to-end feature development including CLI, SNMP/Netconf,  inter module/thread communication, hardware abstraction layer & BCM SDK.
Understanding of BCM L2/L3 packet processing pipeline, traffic management & forwarding engine, with experience on Broadcom SDK for XGS/DNX family based devices is desirable.
Knowledge of IP networking stack in Linux & IP routing is a bonus.
Hands on experience and good knowledge of Chassis based multi-line card and pizza box architecture.