Control Plane - Senior Dev Protocol Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Control Plane - Senior Dev Protocol Engineer to join our team in Bengaluru, India. This role involves designing and developing features for data center networks, network security, and routing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with development engineering teams, product management, and customer solution engineering teams to design and develop feature functionality for data center networks, network security, and routing technologies.
• Architect/Design/Develop network control plane functionality for highly scalable networking platforms.
• Collaborate with Product Management and SQA organization to ensure the implementation meets end-customer requirements for interoperability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Develop detailed functional and design specifications.
• Take complete ownership of the product from ideation to deployment.
• Develop & Automate Unit test plans.
• Review customer deployments and address customer-found issues.
• Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy Extreme Networks' solutions in the customer environment.

Requirements

• Must have

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science/Electronics & Communication/Information Systems.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing features in the Networking domain.
  • Expert programming skills in C/C++.
  • Excellent understanding of Layer 2, Layer 3 (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and overlay protocols like VxLAN, GRE, MPLS, SPB.
  • Good understanding of Linux operating system internals.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile development environment.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Highly motivated and self-driven.

• Nice to have

  • GO Lang programming experience.
  • Understanding of Virtualization & Cloud technologies (Virtual Machines, Containers, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with secure coding practices.
  • Good understanding of network security (Encryption, Authentication, DDOS mitigation, etc).

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work with the latest networking technologies and concepts.
• Access to trainings.
• Collaboration with an international team of professionals.

About the Company

Luxoft is a major enterprise networking equipment provider with a team of networking enthusiasts dedicated to customer success. Our technologies include Networking protocols, Cloud-Native technologies, GitHub, JIRA, traffic generation tools, Windows/Linux servers, network virtualization, network security, network management tools, microservices, and Agile methodologies.

Apply Now

If you are passionate about networking and meet the above requirements, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.