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Meet the Team
Cisco Nexus Dashboard is the unified operations platform designed to simplify and accelerate data center management. Built on a robust, Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, it serves as a single pane of glass for the Cisco data center portfolio, including ACI and Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). By integrating advanced telemetry, orchestration, and policy management services, the platform empowers organizations to streamline their operational workflows, enhance visibility, and ensure consistent configuration and security across diverse physical and virtual environments.
The Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team serves as the backbone of our platform, engineering the critical services that ensure stability, security, and seamless lifecycle management for our global data center customers. By managing the core Kubernetes-based architecture, our team provides the essential foundation upon which advanced orchestration, telemetry, and policy services are built and scaled. We are a fast-paced, dynamic group of engineers who thrive on collaboration and constant innovation, working closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges in real-time. We foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence, making this the ideal environment for engineers who are passionate about building robust, high-scale infrastructure.
Your Impact
Joining Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team means operating at the cutting edge of platform technologies, where you will have the opportunity to directly influence the future of data center automation and platform reliability.
- Core Platform Engineering: Architect and maintain the core infrastructure of the Nexus Dashboard, a Kubernetes-based platform, ensuring high availability and performance across its integrated data stack, including PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
- Cluster Lifecycle Management: Oversee the full deployment lifecycle of multi-node clusters, including automated installation, configuration, and seamless inline software upgrades across diverse physical and virtual form factors.
- System Reliability & Observability: Develop and support critical infrastructure services, including robust backup and restore frameworks, automated anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit logging to ensure platform reliability and operational transparency.
- Security & Identity Infrastructure: Implement and manage enterprise-grade security protocols, focusing on centralized Authentication and Authorization (AAA) and end-to-end certificate lifecycle management for both cluster-level and microservice-level communications.
- Scalability & Performance Optimization: Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to optimize platform scalability and resource efficiency, ensuring the Nexus Dashboard remains a resilient and performant foundation for data center telemetry and orchestration services.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors 4+ years related experience or Masters +2 years of related experience.
- Experience programming in languages such as Go and Python, including leveraging AI-assisted development tools to write, test, and optimize code.
- Experience with rapid prototyping of AI solutions and AI workflow/agent engineering.
- Proven experience in developing, deploying, and managing microservices on Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms.
- Experience designing and implementing robust test plans to ensure software quality, reliability, and coverage across all use cases.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and software engineering, with an aptitude for learning new technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Linux system internals, including process management, file systems, and networking.
- Understanding of distributed databases and messaging systems, such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Kafka.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
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