Cisco Next Generation Fire Power Threat Defense (FTD) is the flagship product from Security Business Group (SBG). FTD integrates award-winning ASA Firewall services and world best and well known IPS engine SNORT into a high-performance appliance. It is an extremely successful product and continue to lead the market with threat centric focus and market differentiating features. Though we take phenomenal pride in being market leaders in threat security for long time, we are constantly innovating and improving our solutions to address the ever-changing threat perceptions and changing data security paradigms so that our customers are always secured. We take our customers trust in us very seriously and go all the way to ensure we protect their data all times. Our team works on leading security and threat mitigation solutions that are hard-working, scalable and easily manageable.

Currently, FTD team in India is looking for talented and motivated individuals who can work optimally in a collaborative environment and lead/contribute to the development and test of our next generation firewall technologies.

Who you are

You are an ideal candidate if you have the following:

• 12+ years of development experience in Networking/Security Domain
• Experience and hands on knowledge on - Routing, SDWAN & Switching (OSPF / BGP / EIGRP / VLAN / STP / DHCP / Multicast, IPv6)
• Proficient in TCP/IP networking, Datapath implementation and Network management,
• Exp in 3G,4G & 5G network domain Knowledge
• Expertise on - Network security (Intrusion prevention / Intrusion detection / NAT / Access-list / IPSEC and SSL VPN / TLS)
• High proficiency in C, C++, Data Structures & Algorithms
• Experience in using GDB and other debugging tools
• Experience in Virtual technologies (ESXi, KVM, AWS, Azure, OCI) is desirable.
• Experience in closely engaging with customer supporting teams to provide timely resolution of problems.

What You'll Do

• You will have the opportunity to work on firewall related security features and be part of the team responsible for defining, developing and innovating new and evolving features and architectures.
• You will participate in many creative projects, with the authority and scope to apply your expertise in a dynamic engineering environment.
• Our team values collaboration, learning, paramount focus on quality and customer impact.
• You will get a chance to work with various teams across varied technologies and will learn and be part of an ever growing, evolving technology.
• You will be responsible for crafting, coding and testing firewall related components with focus on end-to-end visibility and knowledge.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the security behaviour of the network by collaborating with other Engineers, Technical Leaders and Principal Engineers across multiple cross-functional teams in Cisco.

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