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At Cisco’s Security Business Group we are securing the world. This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco's growing product Next Generation Firewall in Cisco's Security Business Group. We are looking for an expert technical leader who strives in a dynamic environment. You will be providing the technical vision as well as people leadership for an expert team working on next-generation firewall management products available both on premises and cloud.

Cisco's Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), part of the Security Business Group (SBG), is a flagship security product offering robust protection and management capabilities. Cisco NGFW integrates industry-leading services:

• FTD (Firepower Threat Defense) combines the proven, award-winning ASA Firewall services with the world’s most well-known IPS engine—SNORT, delivering high-performance threat detection and prevention.
• Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Cloud FMC (cdFMC) (the cloud-based SaaS version of FMC) provide centralized management for FTD devices, making deployment, monitoring, and policy management easier and more efficient for customers.

Cisco offers a comprehensive end-to-end security portfolio, covering on-premises, cloud, on-device, and hybrid environments. This flexibility allows customers to select solutions tailored to their immediate needs and seamlessly transition across these environments as their requirements evolve.

With its market-leading technologies, Cisco Firewall holds a leadership position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, ensuring that customers have access to best-in-class security across any deployment model—on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid.

Your Impact

• You will be part of an Agile team working at a very fast pace to deliver features for our next generation firewall management products. The team is responsible for the lifecycle of the product from architecture, design, development and test.
• Sound knowledge of Design patterns, OOPS concept, RDBMS concept
• Experienced with developing multi-threaded application, database access layer
• Programming experience in a Linux (or Unix) based environment
• Experience working with cross functional teams comprising of Product managers, QA, Technical Marketing, Technical Sales, UX teams
• Conducting code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Good troubleshooting skills, debugging applications to optimize performance
• Staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends in Security area and disseminating the knowledge to larger team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years in software development in Java, React and Angular frameworks
• Strong Expertise in web development technologies, Micro Service architectures and testing them with automation
• Hands-on knowledge of REST API
• Knowledge on Jenkins, Bitbucket and Git
• Excellent verbal and written skills and professional presentation.
• Cloud and virtualization experience including containerization technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cisco Products: Familiarity with Cisco Secure Firewall solutions and Cisco Firewall Management Center, or similar enterprise-grade firewall management platforms.
• Strong background in testing high-performance computing, multi-threading, and low-latency systems.

#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

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