Job Description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual\xe2\x80\x99s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We\xe2\x80\x99re a technology company that leads with our humanity\xe2\x80\x94driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 \xe2\x80\x93 service delivery, agility, and assurance.

We\xe2\x80\x99re 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 \xe2\x80\x93 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\xe2\x80\x99s / Master\xe2\x80\x99s of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• 9+ Years of software development experience including leadership of effective and innovative 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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At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.

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