Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Anti-Spam / Anti-Malware Researcher
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Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Anti-Spam / Anti-Malware Researcher
IronPort Systems, a Cisco Business Unit, is looking for a results-oriented applied-researcher in the Security Applications Analysis Group. The Analysis Group is responsible for identifying and quantifying the impact of techniques for improving the efficacy of our email and web security applications. The Researcher will study spam and malware missed by existing techniques and apply disciplined analysis to identify new techniques for identifying spam and malware. Deliverables include research proposals, research documents describing a technique and quantitative measures of expected efficacy improvement, prototypes, functional specifications and ad-hoc measurement tools. As an applied researcher, the candidate should be comfortable engaging in healthy debate with team members and developing production code as required. Development will be on a UNIX-based platform primarily using Python or C as an implementation language.
Required Experience and Skills:
• 3+ years of applied research or development experience in email, web or network security or a related field
• Understanding of security, including email and/or web threats
• Experience turning research ideas into actionable designs
• Proficient with Unix and databases
• Working knowledge of Perl
• Facility with applied statistics or machine learning
• Advanced degree in a relevant field is desirable
• Professional experience developing any service-oriented software, especially with scaling, QOS and uptime requirements desired
• Relevant experience in reviewing designs, specifications, schedules, and resource estimates
• Cross functional skills: must be able to communicate other groups to agree on testing requirements, hardware specifications, deployment configurations, scheduling, etc.
• Comfortable working in a group with several ongoing concurrent projects.
• Must possess strong verbal, written, analytical, and persuasive skills, and the ability to communicate and interact with all members of the development team.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Characterize and quantify problems related to spam/malware not detected by existing technologies and new techniques being used to spread them
• Propose techniques to stop malware and spam and how the impact of these techniques should be measured
• Develop functional overviews and function specs summarizing the problem being addressed by a new system and its various components
• Publish research documents documenting the methodology and findings of a research project, including quantitative measures of expected efficacy improvement
• Develop and document prototypes to simulate the behavior of a new technique
• Design and monitor tools to measure a particular problem or the contribution of a particular technique over time
• Design and implement production code for projects as required
• Work closely with a cross functional team to design new features and resolve issues as they arise
Personal Characteristics:
“The Customer Comes First” Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer’s needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
“Practical, results-oriented focus”: Candidate must possess a keen instinct to discern the ideas likely to have the most measurable benefit to IronPort’s products from the many possible ideas out there and work closely with other members of the development team to execute them.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Performance Testing Engineer
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Performance Testing Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems, Inc. and one of Cisco’s most recent and highly touted acquisitions. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000 and one of the fastest growing business units in all of Cisco Systems.
Job Description:
The Performance Testing Engineer will be primarily responsible for developing and maintaining tools used in automated performance testing of IronPort's email and web appliances; executing and triaging performance tests; working with development to resolve performance issues; and publishing benchmarks and sizing documents. The Performance Engineer will possess a strong background in QA and engineering, with extensive experience identifying and resolving performance issues in a UNIX environment. The performance testing process is collaborative, and as such the position requires strong organizational and people skills.
Required Experience and Skills:
• Must have 3 year professional experience developing and executing performance tests.
• Expert command of some UNIX variant; able to perform minor system administration duties
• Working knowledge of Python, Perl or other object scripting language
• Strong knowledge of networking debugging
• Working knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, SSH and Telnet
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in debugging scripting and object oriented code
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
• Experience testing Email or HTTP
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Performance Testing Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems, Inc. and one of Cisco’s most recent and highly touted acquisitions. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000 and one of the fastest growing business units in all of Cisco Systems.
Job Description:
The Performance Testing Engineer will be primarily responsible for developing and maintaining tools used in automated performance testing of IronPort's email and web appliances; executing and triaging performance tests; working with development to resolve performance issues; and publishing benchmarks and sizing documents. The Performance Engineer will possess a strong background in QA and engineering, with extensive experience identifying and resolving performance issues in a UNIX environment. The performance testing process is collaborative, and as such the position requires strong organizational and people skills.
Required Experience and Skills:
• Must have 3 year professional experience developing and executing performance tests.
• Expert command of some UNIX variant; able to perform minor system administration duties
• Working knowledge of Python, Perl or other object scripting language
• Strong knowledge of networking debugging
• Working knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, SSH and Telnet
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in debugging scripting and object oriented code
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
• Experience testing Email or HTTP
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Monday, February 4, 2008
QA Engineer
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
QA Engineer
IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
This QA Engineer will be a primary contributor to the test effort for the IronPort Security Management Appliance, part of IronPort's full line of high availability, massive performance and easy to use network security appliances. The QA Engineer will work with Engineering and Product Management to review product requirements and engineering specifications and will write and execute test plans and test cases based on these documents.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Create and review test cases and test plans based on functional specifications and marketing requirements documents
* Execute test cases and test plans using internal API test tool or manual execution as needed.
* Identify, isolate and document software defects, either independently or with QA/Development peers
* Analysis and diagnosis of issues found in the field.
* Mentor junior team members
* Provide status and escalate issues to Team Lead as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
* MUST HAVE SERVER-SIDE, UNIX BASED QA EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of 6 years experience in QA
* Proven, referenceable experience as a White/Grey box QA Engineer
* Strong command of some UNIX variant
* API level testing using custom test harnesses
* Solid skills in python or other programming language
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
* Experience testing RDBMS-based applications
* Experience testing server applications
* Proven track record of developing test plans and test cases from engineering specifications and product marketing documents
* Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization
Required Experience and Skills:
* FreeBSD
* SQL
* Knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
QA Engineer
IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
This QA Engineer will be a primary contributor to the test effort for the IronPort Security Management Appliance, part of IronPort's full line of high availability, massive performance and easy to use network security appliances. The QA Engineer will work with Engineering and Product Management to review product requirements and engineering specifications and will write and execute test plans and test cases based on these documents.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Create and review test cases and test plans based on functional specifications and marketing requirements documents
* Execute test cases and test plans using internal API test tool or manual execution as needed.
* Identify, isolate and document software defects, either independently or with QA/Development peers
* Analysis and diagnosis of issues found in the field.
* Mentor junior team members
* Provide status and escalate issues to Team Lead as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
* MUST HAVE SERVER-SIDE, UNIX BASED QA EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of 6 years experience in QA
* Proven, referenceable experience as a White/Grey box QA Engineer
* Strong command of some UNIX variant
* API level testing using custom test harnesses
* Solid skills in python or other programming language
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
* Experience testing RDBMS-based applications
* Experience testing server applications
* Proven track record of developing test plans and test cases from engineering specifications and product marketing documents
* Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization
Required Experience and Skills:
* FreeBSD
* SQL
* Knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
QA Engineer
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
QA Engineer
IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
This QA Engineer will be a primary contributor to the test effort for the IronPort Security Management Appliance, part of IronPort's full line of high availability, massive performance and easy to use network security appliances. The QA Engineer will work with Engineering and Product Management to review product requirements and engineering specifications and will write and execute test plans and test cases based on these documents.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Create and review test cases and test plans based on functional specifications and marketing requirements documents
* Execute test cases and test plans using internal API test tool or manual execution as needed.
* Identify, isolate and document software defects, either independently or with QA/Development peers
* Analysis and diagnosis of issues found in the field.
* Mentor junior team members
* Provide status and escalate issues to Team Lead as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
* MUST HAVE SERVER-SIDE, UNIX BASED QA EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of 6 years experience in QA
* Proven, referenceable experience as a White/Grey box QA Engineer
* Strong command of some UNIX variant
* API level testing using custom test harnesses
* Solid skills in python or other programming language
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
* Experience testing RDBMS-based applications
* Experience testing server applications
* Proven track record of developing test plans and test cases from engineering specifications and product marketing documents
* Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization
Required Experience and Skills:
* FreeBSD
* SQL
* Knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
QA Engineer
IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
This QA Engineer will be a primary contributor to the test effort for the IronPort Security Management Appliance, part of IronPort's full line of high availability, massive performance and easy to use network security appliances. The QA Engineer will work with Engineering and Product Management to review product requirements and engineering specifications and will write and execute test plans and test cases based on these documents.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Create and review test cases and test plans based on functional specifications and marketing requirements documents
* Execute test cases and test plans using internal API test tool or manual execution as needed.
* Identify, isolate and document software defects, either independently or with QA/Development peers
* Analysis and diagnosis of issues found in the field.
* Mentor junior team members
* Provide status and escalate issues to Team Lead as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
* MUST HAVE SERVER-SIDE, UNIX BASED QA EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of 6 years experience in QA
* Proven, referenceable experience as a White/Grey box QA Engineer
* Strong command of some UNIX variant
* API level testing using custom test harnesses
* Solid skills in python or other programming language
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
* Experience testing RDBMS-based applications
* Experience testing server applications
* Proven track record of developing test plans and test cases from engineering specifications and product marketing documents
* Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization
Required Experience and Skills:
* FreeBSD
* SQL
* Knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Technical Marketing Engineer, Web Security Appliances
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Technical Marketing Engineer, Web Security Appliances
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
Responsibilities:
Technical Marketing Engineers (TMEs) are product focused, working with a cross-functional team to ensure that the products that IronPort is bringing to market is successful in a wide variety of customer engagements.
TMEs have intrinsic product knowledge as well as detailed technical knowledge about a variety of networking environments where the product has to reside in. TMEs should have the ability to clearly articulate the technical differentiators of a product as well as work with IronPort Product Managers in identifying customer requirements and product gaps and helping PMs prioritize those gaps. Extensive customer and field interaction is a must.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Responsible for creating Technical collateral, application notes, technical white papers, presentations, demonstrations, and providing deal support for IronPort's Web Security product line
• Responsible for creating and maintaining vendor inter-operability matrices for IronPort's Web Security Appliance product line
• Assist in BU activity regarding performance and competitive analysis. Responsible for creating and maintaining field-facing performance and sizing matrix for IronPort's Web Security Appliance product line
• Support sales and marketing efforts as required. Some travel required to support field and marketing activity
• Support product launch activities and assist with Tradeshows, Conferences and Technical Sales Training or Channel Partner Training activities.
• Respond to customer or field inquiries, assist with Technical RFPs and work with a cross-functional team of PMs, SEs, Engineers as required.
Required Experience and Skills:
•BA/BS (business, marketing, or engineering preferred), MBA or equivalent a plus.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills required.
• Natural leadership skills and the ability to work with all teams in the company.
• Extensive experience with Internet technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, WCCP, FTP, SSH, SCP, LDAP etc) a must.
• Knowledge of web proxies, caching, Layer 4-7 switching desired
• Knowledge of Windows Active Directory services & protocols (NTLM SSP, NTLM basic, NTLM v2 etc.) a plus
• Experience with Cisco routing, switching or security products a plus
• Prior experience as a TME within the networking or security industry a must.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Product Manager, Competitive Analysis
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Product Manager, Competitive Analysis
Protecting over 300 million email accounts, Cisco IronPort is a technology leader whose security applications are used by organizations of all sizes around the world. IronPort provides innovative and high performance products for those faced with the task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats.
Cisco’s recent acquisition of IronPort marks the second largest private transaction in the company’s history. IronPort now operates as an independent business unit within Cisco. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our Product Management team in order to support and participate in our rapid independent growth as well as the tremendous new market opportunities that will come through Cisco.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a world-class team in a fast-growing entrepreneurial environment, while having access to the resources of the largest networking and communcations company on the planet.
Job Description:
The Product Manager for Competitive Analysis supports the sales team, other product managers, and marketing through analysis of competitive products and the overall market, then effectively position IronPort products by developing comprehensive positioning materials for use by the sales force and PM organization. A huge responsibility of this role is to provide an honest and accurate assessment of IronPort’s position in the market, and our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This position is both strategic and tactical, and is best filled by someone who wants to chart their own course to fulfill their mission.
Successful candidates will be comfortable interacting with a top-notch sales force, worldwide customers, and a highly motivated PM team. Candidates must have the desire to provide a strong voice within Product Management and Marketing, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced self-directed organization. This is a growth position meant to help someone with strong communication skills and a technical background evolve into a strong cross-functional leader.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Perform analysis of competitive products by self-directed research leveraging all available resources. Produce succinct documentation on competitors for distribution to direct and channel sales force. Influence product requirements to contest competitive offerings. Respond to competitive announcements with quick blurbs to sales force.
• Manage the process of product reviews with industry publications. Position IronPort products to win reviews. Provide technical direction to reviewers and testers on why IronPort is the best choice. Develop a reviewer's guide to influence the criteria and methodology for product reviews.
• Act as a company representative in customer, analyst, industry group, and press-facing situations.
• Support sales and marketing efforts as required. Some travel required (including international).
• Develop clear and compelling marketing messages to position IronPort products to win engagements in all market segments. Test, measure, and improve the effectiveness of messaging. Write marketing collateral (e.g. white papers and data sheets) and develop presentations using these messages to influence customers to purchase IronPort products.
Required Experience and Skills:
• BS/BA degree, CS or EE degree a plus, MBA or business classes a plus.
• 2 - 6 years experience in leading efforts in a related field such as product marketing, sales, or engineering.
• Strong technical ability to setup and configure email and web security systems to perform side-by-side analysis.
• Previous focus on analysis of technical products a plus.
• Knowledge of influential industry analysts and press a plus.
• Understanding of the email and web security space is important.
• Comfortable with public speaking in groups of 20 or more individuals.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral presentation skills required.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Product Manager, Competitive Analysis
Protecting over 300 million email accounts, Cisco IronPort is a technology leader whose security applications are used by organizations of all sizes around the world. IronPort provides innovative and high performance products for those faced with the task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats.
Cisco’s recent acquisition of IronPort marks the second largest private transaction in the company’s history. IronPort now operates as an independent business unit within Cisco. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our Product Management team in order to support and participate in our rapid independent growth as well as the tremendous new market opportunities that will come through Cisco.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a world-class team in a fast-growing entrepreneurial environment, while having access to the resources of the largest networking and communcations company on the planet.
Job Description:
The Product Manager for Competitive Analysis supports the sales team, other product managers, and marketing through analysis of competitive products and the overall market, then effectively position IronPort products by developing comprehensive positioning materials for use by the sales force and PM organization. A huge responsibility of this role is to provide an honest and accurate assessment of IronPort’s position in the market, and our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This position is both strategic and tactical, and is best filled by someone who wants to chart their own course to fulfill their mission.
Successful candidates will be comfortable interacting with a top-notch sales force, worldwide customers, and a highly motivated PM team. Candidates must have the desire to provide a strong voice within Product Management and Marketing, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced self-directed organization. This is a growth position meant to help someone with strong communication skills and a technical background evolve into a strong cross-functional leader.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Perform analysis of competitive products by self-directed research leveraging all available resources. Produce succinct documentation on competitors for distribution to direct and channel sales force. Influence product requirements to contest competitive offerings. Respond to competitive announcements with quick blurbs to sales force.
• Manage the process of product reviews with industry publications. Position IronPort products to win reviews. Provide technical direction to reviewers and testers on why IronPort is the best choice. Develop a reviewer's guide to influence the criteria and methodology for product reviews.
• Act as a company representative in customer, analyst, industry group, and press-facing situations.
• Support sales and marketing efforts as required. Some travel required (including international).
• Develop clear and compelling marketing messages to position IronPort products to win engagements in all market segments. Test, measure, and improve the effectiveness of messaging. Write marketing collateral (e.g. white papers and data sheets) and develop presentations using these messages to influence customers to purchase IronPort products.
Required Experience and Skills:
• BS/BA degree, CS or EE degree a plus, MBA or business classes a plus.
• 2 - 6 years experience in leading efforts in a related field such as product marketing, sales, or engineering.
• Strong technical ability to setup and configure email and web security systems to perform side-by-side analysis.
• Previous focus on analysis of technical products a plus.
• Knowledge of influential industry analysts and press a plus.
• Understanding of the email and web security space is important.
• Comfortable with public speaking in groups of 20 or more individuals.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral presentation skills required.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
WSA Engineering Manager
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
WSA Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
WSA Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
The QA Technical Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of IronPort’s E-Mail Security Products. Possessing strong whitebox testing experience, the QA Technical Engineer will be involved in the entire QA cycle from requirements evaluation, to test case development and execution, to product readiness, defect status, and test results reporting. The successful candidate will use knowledge of the software development lifecycle, use case definition, and testing tools and methodologies to ensure customer satisfaction with our initial and future releases. QA Technical Engineer will be an independent self-starter who can multi-task across projects and effectively organize your time under tight deadlines. In addition, the QA Technical Engineer will maintain the performance and functional testing tools, integrating enhancements as needed.
Requirements:
• Must have a minimum of 4 years’ solid testing and programming experience in a product environment.
• Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in defining and creating test harnesses from engineering and product management/marketing documentation
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• MUST HAVE extensive hands-on experience with UNIX commands; Shell scripting and administrator experience is a plus
• White box testing experience, especially in C, Python or Perl
• Experience setting up a robust test environment, and writing test harnesses and test scripts that are reusable for successive product releases. Must be willing to solicit feedback on tools and incorporate enhancements into them as needed.
• Have practical understanding of QA processes and methodologies; some experience with formal software standards (CMM, IEEE, ISO 9001) desired
• Experience with formal defect-tracking software and automation tools.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills; perform detailed analysis of test results to uncover product defects and incomplete test cases
• Must be able to define acceptance criteria and report on the current state of the software to various groups within the organization
• Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
• Able to create and maintain release procedure guidelines to QA for each internal and external release
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of protocols: SMTP, LDAP, IMAP, POP, DNS, FTP, SSH
• Configuration management/release engineering experience
• Hardware testing or embedded software testing experience
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: The successful candidate will reject setbacks and will enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved. He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
• Passionate commitment to quality. Champions quality across all stages of SDLC and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related tasks.
• Accountability: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds himself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of quality initiatives.
• Sense of urgency. Escalates quality issues when appropriate; maintains a sense of “bug ownership” to see all issues through to a successful resolution. Strives to turn around issues with an efficient and effective approach.
• Flexibility and adaptability. Should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
The QA Technical Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of IronPort’s E-Mail Security Products. Possessing strong whitebox testing experience, the QA Technical Engineer will be involved in the entire QA cycle from requirements evaluation, to test case development and execution, to product readiness, defect status, and test results reporting. The successful candidate will use knowledge of the software development lifecycle, use case definition, and testing tools and methodologies to ensure customer satisfaction with our initial and future releases. QA Technical Engineer will be an independent self-starter who can multi-task across projects and effectively organize your time under tight deadlines. In addition, the QA Technical Engineer will maintain the performance and functional testing tools, integrating enhancements as needed.
Requirements:
• Must have a minimum of 4 years’ solid testing and programming experience in a product environment.
• Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in defining and creating test harnesses from engineering and product management/marketing documentation
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• MUST HAVE extensive hands-on experience with UNIX commands; Shell scripting and administrator experience is a plus
• White box testing experience, especially in C, Python or Perl
• Experience setting up a robust test environment, and writing test harnesses and test scripts that are reusable for successive product releases. Must be willing to solicit feedback on tools and incorporate enhancements into them as needed.
• Have practical understanding of QA processes and methodologies; some experience with formal software standards (CMM, IEEE, ISO 9001) desired
• Experience with formal defect-tracking software and automation tools.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills; perform detailed analysis of test results to uncover product defects and incomplete test cases
• Must be able to define acceptance criteria and report on the current state of the software to various groups within the organization
• Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
• Able to create and maintain release procedure guidelines to QA for each internal and external release
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of protocols: SMTP, LDAP, IMAP, POP, DNS, FTP, SSH
• Configuration management/release engineering experience
• Hardware testing or embedded software testing experience
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: The successful candidate will reject setbacks and will enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved. He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
• Passionate commitment to quality. Champions quality across all stages of SDLC and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related tasks.
• Accountability: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds himself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of quality initiatives.
• Sense of urgency. Escalates quality issues when appropriate; maintains a sense of “bug ownership” to see all issues through to a successful resolution. Strives to turn around issues with an efficient and effective approach.
• Flexibility and adaptability. Should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Engineering Manager
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
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