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Within CCPS, the Cloud Software & Solutions (CSS) group designs and develops enterprise OpenStack and Kubernetes platform solutions engineered for quality, stability, scale, and performance.\nWe believe that world-class platform quality is achieved through teamwork, innovation, and psychological safety. You will serve as the technical authority for platform test engineering-shaping global test strategy, mentoring talented engineers, and building reusable automation frameworks that power important hybrid cloud infrastructure.\nYour Impact\nDefine end-to-end quality strategies, SLI/SLO benchmarks, and release readiness criteria across Kubernetes and OpenStack platform solutions.\nDevelop, build, and scale modular, reusable test automation frameworks in Python, establishing coding standards and best practices across teams.\nBuild automated suites for load, stress, scalability, endurance, failover, and chaos testing across distributed hybrid cloud platforms.\nmetrics, logs, traces, profiles (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and OS-level evidence to isolate performance bottlenecks and drive fixes with development teams.\nIntegrate repeatable test suites and statistical release criteria directly into active CI/CD pipelines.\nCoach engineers through architecture and code reviews, fostering a strong culture of automated testing excellence and shared platform ownership.\n\nMinimum Qualifications (Must-Have Skills):\nWe are seeking 12+ years in Software Engineering, Platform Quality, or Reliability Engineering with proven experience in a Technical Lead or Architect capacity (Bachelor’s/master’s degree or equivalent practical experience welcomed).\nDemonstrated expertise designing, building, and maintaining modular, object-oriented test automation frameworks in Python embraced across multiple engineering teams.\nDeep hands-on knowledge of on-premises Kubernetes and OpenStack architecture, container runtimes, networking, storage, and distributed failure modes.\nConsistent record in performance, load, stress, and chaos engineering using tools like Locust, k6, JMeter, kube-burner, Robot Framework, fio, or iperf.\nStrong experience solving complex distributed systems using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Linux kernel/OS diagnostics, and distributed tracing.\nDaily use of AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex) to accelerate test generation, script maintenance, and workflow optimization.\nPreferred Qualifications (Optional Skills):\nExperience with storage and networking architectures like Ceph, CNI/CSI plugins, OVS/OVN, or bare-metal provisioning.\nInfrastructure as Code & automated lab provisioning experience using Terraform or Ansible.\nExpertise in statistical analysis, capacity planning, and automated benchmark visualizations.\nRelevant industry certifications (CKA/CKS, OpenStack, Linux Foundation, SRE, or Performance Engineering).\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. 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