Job Description:

Experience: 8-13 Years

Key Responsibilities

• Technically lead the sustenance team responsible for maintaining, supporting, and enhancing Network Automation and Orchestration products.
• Own the overall sustenance engineering lifecycle, including defect resolution, product enhancements, maintenance releases, and associated design, code, and unit/integration test artifacts.
• Drive engineering excellence through effective debugging, root-cause analysis, code quality, regression testing, and automation of repetitive maintenance activities.
• Analyse production issues and customer-reported defects, establish root causes, and drive timely resolution in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Mentor team members on troubleshooting, design principles, coding standards, testing practices, and effective problem-solving.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Development, QA, Customer Support, and other engineering teams to ensure end-to-end resolution of product issues and successful delivery of enhancements.

Required Skills and Expertise
Core Competencies




• Complete exposure to the entire Product Life Cycle (MUST HAVE)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in local and remote debugging

Architecture and Design
• Microservices-based architecture and best practices
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes (K8s, K3s) clusters, and Helm charts
• Exposure to cloud application development
• Sound data and information modelling techniques using YANG, UML, JSON, and related tools

Programming and Development
• Solid coding and debugging experience with Java or Golang
• Linux OS proficiency, advanced data structures, and IPC mechanisms
• Intricate understanding of multi-threading, routines, network programming, and object-oriented methodologies
• Agile Development Model with CI/CD, Jenkins pipeline, and Git environment

Data Management and Messaging
• Database concepts and deployment models: RDBMS, NoS

📌 STAFF SW SYSTEMS ENGINEER 10302-Cloud Networking (Chennai)
🏢 Extreme Networks
📍 Chennai