Software Engineer (Broadband Networks), Early Career

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As a Software Engineer (Linux/Networking/Automation - ATCA chassis), the primary focus is on production operations/automation: maintaining Linux-based ATCA platforms, ensuring secure and reliable network services, and driving automation for deployment, observability, and incident response in an Agile DevOps environment. This includes change management, maintenance windows, on-call readiness, and continuous improvement of operational runbooks and SLOs. You will be working with a geographically dispersed team.

• Own day-to-day operations of multi-shelf ATCA chassis (preferably Radisys), including module lifecycle, platform health, capacity, and firmware/software rollouts within defined maintenance windows.
• Lead IP networking change implementation in production and pre-prod, including canary/scoped rollouts, test-image deployment, and post-change validation with rollback plans.
• Develop and manage operational automation with Ansible, Python, and shell for addressing configuration drift, patching, and consistent deployments throughout Linux fleets.
• Establish and operate monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics using packet tools (Wireshark, tcpdump), traffic generators (IXIA, iperf), and system/network telemetry to ensure SLIs/SLOs are met.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and playbooks for incident response, change control, and disaster recovery; contribute to RCA and corrective action plans.
• Perform routine system administration across RHEL/Ubuntu/SLES: package management (yum/apt/zypper), kernel/network tuning, filesystem and network configuration, and security hardening.
• Drive readiness for releases: pre-flight checks, staging validation, production cutovers, and post-deploy verification; coordinate with cross-functional teams for approvals and communications.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, triage incidents, execute mitigations, and implement post-incident improvements to reduce MTTR and eliminate repeat issues.
• Conduct performance and resilience testing using IXIA/iperf and IPv4 traffic patterns; validate WiMAX-based scenarios where applicable.
• Champion CI/CD integration of operational tests (smoke, health, conformance) using Jenkins/GitLab CI to gate changes and enforce quality bars.

Additional:

• Prior experience with Linux; i.e., across RHEL/Ubuntu/SLES, including CLI proficiency, scripting, and/or deep familiarity with system configuration and triaging
• Familiarity and/or experience with Ethernet and IPv4 based networks, packet analysis, transport security, and/or network testing in production-like environments
• Hands-on experience with Python, shell scripting, and/or Ansible (config management, orchestration) for operational automation and remediation
• Experience with at least one traffic generation and measurement (IXIA, iperf) and diagnostics tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, nping, traceroute) for service validation
• Exposure to CI/CD (i.e., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.) for integrating operational tests, change gating, and/or artifact promotion
• Strong ownership attitude for reliability: i.e., incident management, change management, documentation, cross-team communication, etc.

• Experience in operating ATCA platforms (multi-shelf chassis) and/or performing planned production changes with measurable validation and rollback
• Background in telecom or large-scale networked systems with strict uptime and maintenance windows
• Experience defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs, alert strategies, and network capacity management for chassis-based platforms
• Prior involvement in security hardening, compliance, or audit-readiness for operational environments
• WiMAX exposure for operational testing and validation scenarios
• Contributions to operational excellence: automation coverage, error budgets, postmortem quality, and toil reduction

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