Senior Software Engineer | JAVA Networking & Networking Security | Bangalore | 8+ years

Cisco Next Generation FirePower Threat Defence (FTD) is the flagship product from Security Business Group (SBG). FTD integrates award-winning ASA Firewall services and world’s best & well known IPS engine SNORT into a high-performance appliance. FirePower Management Center (FMC) and Cloud FMC (aka cdFMC : SAAS avatar of FMC) provides the management capability for the FTDs, which makes customers life much easier. 

Talking specifically about Cloud FMC: it brings cutting edge security management features to the customers at a fast pace and needs equally fast paced technical innovation and adaptations to the cloud tech, while keeping parity with the on-prem FCM. 

Our mission is simple: make it easy, reliable and effective for security management for our Firewall devices. 

Our work culture is defined by values of “Being kinder than necessary”, “Learning together”, “Engineering the business” and celebrating diversity of perspectives. A positive and intellectually cultivating environment for employees is the reason Cisco has won the “Best company to work for” three years in a row and earned us the title of “The most loved security company” given by our customers. 

Our engineers at all levels lead projects and bring our teams along with them. We value inclusion, empower autonomy, and emphasize software craftsmanship. You embody our values and development culture of collaboration, democracy, testing, CI/CD, data-driven decisions, and mentorship. 

Currently, cdFMC team is looking for talented and motivated individuals who can work optimally in a collaborative environment and contribute to the development and test of our cloud FMC platform, while providing feature asks in the MSSP market segment. 

Required Skills: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or above) in computer science or related field with 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience in technically designing features and hands-on developing them, working across with other team members
• Experience in JAVA, very strong on Coding, Networking & Network security domain Knowledge Must.
• Good Knowledge on Unit Test, JUnit.
• Good Knowledge on Version Control System- Git, Perforce.
• Strong fundamentals of data structures, algorithms, design patterns and async programming.
• Hands-on development experience in API Driven Microservices Architecture.
• Hands-on coding knowledge on Java, along with any of the scripting language like Python or Perl (preferably Perl) .
• Knowledge of AWS provided services : focused primarily at EFS, RDS, EC2, S3 and Lambda services

Nice to have: 

• Network Security and MSSP Domain knowledge will help

o Agile software development experience.

• A proven understanding of security best-practices in web development.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in designing, delivery and testing the New/Existing Functionality in the Product
• Ability to focus on deep internal aspects of the feature and its integration with the other cloud services, while keeping scaling out and keeping the cost as low as possible
• Automate tests using FTL and Integrate them into Regression

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is outstanding, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (39 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a Software company. And a Security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

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