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Job Description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity-driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Introducing Ciena

For more than 30 years, Ciena has been a global leader in networking strategy. Our technology is part of the critical infrastructure that enables innovations that wow us – like autonomous driving, and those we take for granted – like mobile-streaming video. These advancements in technology are possible because of the pioneering approach at Ciena. We are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology that makes the internet itself work. We build adaptive networks that grow smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day – much like Ciena itself.

Why Ciena:

1. We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
2. We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
3. We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
4. We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
5. We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
6. We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off!
7. Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute:

We’re looking for an experienced, motivated, and talented individual interested in progressing their career in advanced L2/IP/MPLS switching features, while learning to leverage the disruption taking place with SDN, NFV and virtualized routing systems. You will take an experienced and influential role contributing to advancing next generation L2/IP/MPLS capabilities focused on service provider, carrier grade capability, scale, and reliability.

Contribute to design and development of features and enhancements in L2/IP control plane/OAM protocols, with skills involving advanced L2/IP/OAM Concepts: VPLS, VPWS, EVPN, L2 VPN, 802.1ag CFM, MEF 35.1 PM, Y.1731, Ethernet, ERPS, LAG, MC-LAG, IGMP/Multicast and network virtualization.

Participate in software design, development, validation, and defect resolution activities to deliver functionally excellent products to Ciena’s customers.

Translate market directions, customer requirements, and new industry standards into software design and execution activities.

Assist and lead in early product demonstrations to customers.

Drive integration with enabling technologies including third party software, existing platform and hardware capabilities.

Trouble shoot and fix reported issues. Identify root cause, diagnose, debug and deliver robust timely fixes.

Provide basic assessment of own work including effort estimation and status reporting.

Continuous learning and development of skills in L2/IP/MPLS control plane development and network virtualization.

The Must Haves:

1. Excellent C programming and troubleshooting skills on embedded Linux environment.
2. Excellent understanding of Ethernet, VLAN and L2 switching is required.
3. Deep exposure to L2 control protocols. Protocols include ERPS, LACP, CFM, Y.1731, LLDP, Ethernet OAM, IGMP, xSTP etc. Familiarity with IEEE/IETF/MEF standards is a bonus.
4. Familiarity with L2VPN/EVPN services and network virtualization is a bonus.
5. Exposure to debug tools (e.g. GDB), test tools (e.g. Ixia/Spirent) and configuration management (e.g. Perforce/Git) is required.
6. Exposure to end-to-end feature development including CLI, SNMP/Netconf, inter module/thread communication, protocol state machine.

The Good to Haves:

1. Familiarity with Broadcom XGS/DNX family of switches is a bonus.

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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