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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.
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.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Sr. Interaction Designer (R825685)
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.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sr. Software QA Engineer (R825618)
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.
Sr. Software 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.
Job Description:
The Reputation Software/QA Engineer Lead will be primarily responsible for testing software used to detect known senders of malware or spam emails and for providing technical leadership within the QA group. This is a dynamic and critical area of IronPort's security software since assessments of a sender's reputation can significantly reduce the demands on content scanning software, and spam producers frequently change their sender information to avoid detection. The Reputation Software/QA Engineer Lead will possess a strong background in QA testing, particularly backend or white box testing, and will have demonstrated practical experience in providing technical leadership to teams of at least 3 members. The testing process at IronPort is a collaborative process between Development and QA, and as such, the position requires strong technical and organizational skills, people skills and team interaction abilities. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to develop test plans and test cases in a time-to-market sensitive environment while providing technical guidance to members of the QA team and consistently maintaining an outstanding level of quality.
Required Experience and Skills:
* Minimum of 8 years professional QA experience
* Minimum of 2 years technical QA lead experience
* Working knowledge of Python, Perl or other object oriented language
* Practical knowledge of networking troubleshooting
* Working knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
* Strong familiarity with some UNIX variant; able to perform minor sys admin duties
* 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 high quality in a highly available, scalable environment
* Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
* Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
* Experience testing a mail or messaging application
Personal Characteristics:
* Independent: Able to grasp high level product requirements and translate these to testplans and test tools effectively. Capable of gathering required information from engineers and product marketing to perform job function.
* Strong sense of ownership: Sees test tools throughout their lifecycle; from development to deployment. Personally ensures that tools work correctly when deployed, and also ensure that users have a full understanding of how to use these tools and interpret their results.
* Assertive: Champions causes that will benefit the company. Is not afraid to voice opinions that may contradict those of management.
* Communicative: Takes 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.
* 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
* Accountable: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who holds themselves 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.
* Flexible and adaptable. 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.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Performance QA Engineer (R823858)
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 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.
Responsibilities:
The Automation Engineer will be primarily responsible for maintaining tools used in automated testing of IronPort's email appliance. The Automation Engineer will possess a strong background in QA and engineering. The automation process will be a collaborative process, and as such the position requires strong organizational skills, people skills and team coding abilities. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to develop custom automation tools in a time-to-market sensitive environment.
Required Experience and Skills:
* Minimum of 3 year professional experience developing scripted automated software tests.
* Working knowledge of Python, Perl or other object oriented language
* Strong knowledge of networking debugging
* Working knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet
* Expert command of some UNIX variant; able to perform minor sys admin duties
* 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
* Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
* Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
* Experience testing a mail or messaging application
Personal Characteristics:
* Independent: Able to grasp high level product requirements and translate these to testplans and test tools effectively. Capable of gathering required information from engineers and product marketing to perform job function.
* Strong sense of ownership: Sees test tools throughout their lifecycle; from development to deployment. Personally ensures that tools work correctly when deployed, and also ensure that users have a full understanding of how to use these tools and interpret their results.
* Assertive: Champions causes that will benefit the company. Is not afraid to voice opinions that may contradict those of management.
* Communicative: Takes 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.
* 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
* Accountable: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who holds themselves 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.
* Flexible and adaptable. 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.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Program 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.
Program Manager
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.
Responsibilities:
The Program Manager leads cross-functional teams consisting of product management, development, QA, support and operations personnel to define, build and launch IronPort software and appliance products into the marketplace. The successful candidate will have a unique blend of technical knowledge and exceptional communication and problem-solving skills. He or she must also be able to balance business needs against the ability to deliver in order to consistently define and deliver against program schedule, feature and cost goals.
• Lead software product core teams from definition through launch.
• Develop and manage cross-functional program schedules; identify risks, manage scope and resource changes, and monitor progress against plan.
• Identify, escalate and drive resolution of issues that affect program schedule and feature commitments.
• Communicate program status to management and executives on a regular basis in both formal and informal environments.
• Ensure effective communication within the engineering team and between the project team and other engineering groups.
• Manage multiple concurrent product releases within the program portfolio.
• Contribute to IronPort’s Product Development Lifecycle through process development, documentation and socialization throughout the organization.
Required Experience and Skills:
• BA/BS (business, or engineering preferred), MS/MBA or equivalent desired
• At least 3-5 years in program management with prior experience in product development, product management or a technology environment
• Exceptional team player with the ability to quickly develop and foster cross-functional relationships
• Demonstrated ability to understand, resolve and communicate technical and business issues
• Able to quickly drive, communicate and gain support for decisions in unstructured environments
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized and detail-oriented, with a high level of integrity and reliability
• Experience with server appliances, UNIX, network and/or e-mail applications a plus.
• Specific experience in commercial enterprise software development preferred.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Anti-Spam Software 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.
Software 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.
We are seeking experienced candidates with a strong software engineering background, a passion for Anti-Spam and deep understanding of Email related technologies to help us develop and sustain the best Anti-Spam solution available.
The role is focused on day-to-day sustaining the efficacy of our Anti-Spam product and also involves a lot of data analysis and problem solving skills, sometimes under customer facing time pressure. The position involves coding that is often less structured than traditional shipping product development. Solid engineering skills are needed to be able to understand down to the code level the diverse suite of data processing technologies and tools involved in our Anti-Spam solution.
The work has a heavy UNIX command line skill requirement and PERL is used extensively to automate certain tasks as well as for ad-hoc data analysis. Working with PERL regular expressions is a staple of daily development. SQL skills are important as the candidate will be often working with data in large relational DB environments. There is often interaction with development engineers in different product areas and with the customer facing teams in support and operations. There is also significant interfacing with remote teams.
The candidate who is going to be most successful and fulfilled in this position is someone with a deep understanding of Email and related technologies and a background in Anti-Spam. Most of all someone with a real passion for solving the spam problem. We want to win this war!
The candidate will ultimately perform in a technical lead capacity to guide and mentor others in the team (including remote/off-shore) as well as be involved with other development groups and help influence the direction of our Anti-Spam technologies.
The ideal candidate will have strength and deep knowledge in PERL, UNIX, Email technologies including Anti Spam, Networking, and SQL, 5+ years of professional experience developing commercial software, experience providing technical leadership for small teams of engineers, strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Understanding of multi-byte character encodings, mime types, RFC-2821 and RFC-2822 as well as knowledge of one or more open source and/or commercial anti-spam solutions and of network DNS blacklists and Email reputation systems are all pluses.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Cisco Stops Spam with Increased Performance from Intel
Intel Multi-core Processors Power Next-Generation IronPort Content Security Systems
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- Sept. 18, 2007 –IronPort Systems, a business unit of Cisco® today announced the use of Multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors to power IronPort’s next generation of email and Web security appliances. IronPort® appliances use AsyncOS, a proprietary operating system that is taking full advantage of the significant performance increases made possible by Intel Multi-core technology. This performance improvement helps enterprises, Internet service providers (ISPs) and smaller organizations stay ahead of the never-ending deluge of spam e-mail.
Spam, Spam, Spam, and More Spam
According to IronPort's SenderBase, world's first and largest email traffic monitoring service, the volume of spam has been roughly doubling every year, with no end in sight. As of August 2007, the IronPort business unit measured an 18 percent month-over-month increase in spam volume. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of all email is spam. More than 80 percent of spam comes from infected “zombie” computers, typically in consumer broadband networks. As spam filters become more effective and more widely deployed, a spammer simply sends more messages with the hope that enough will get through spam filters to make the spammer’s business profitable.
Spam Gets Smarter
In addition to the brute-force tactic of doubling spam volumes year-over-year, spammers have adopted a variety of techniques to bypass traditional filters. Spammers have migrated from simple text messages to HTML messages to image-based spam. The latest variant is known as attachment spam, where spam messages are embedded into popular attachment types such as Adobe PDF or Microsoft Excel files. This poses additional burdens for spam filters because the average spam message size has increased from approximately 3 kilobytes Kbytes in 2005 to 40 kilobytes in 2007. Not only are the messages larger, but they also require much more computer processing at the perimeter to interpret the new attachments and distinguish spam from legitimate mail. The combination of exponential growth in message volumes coupled with larger messages and more required processing per message has caused many traditional anti-spam systems to struggle to keep up—these end users will see more spam getting past the filters and into their inbox, and may experience delays in sending and receiving mail.
Staying in Front
The new generation of email security appliances from IronPort harnesses the power of Multi-core Intel Xeon processors to stay in front of new spammer tactics. The IronPort X1050 uses dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series. The IronPort AsyncOS operating system is able to take full advantage of all eight cores, yielding system throughput approximately 800 percent greater than a comparable single-core appliance. This increase in processing power allows the IronPort appliance not only to process more spam messages, but also to run more sophisticated rules and analysis to thwart the latest spam techniques.
The combination of IronPort software and Intel's advanced hardware result in systems that have the capacity and capability to stay ahead of surging spam.
Available Now
IronPort X1050 and all multi-core systems are available now. Visit http://ironport.com/products/ironport_x1050.html for more details.
About IronPort Systems
IronPort Systems, headquartered in San Bruno, California, is a business unit of Cisco Systems, Inc.. IronPort Systems is the leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort appliances utilize SenderBase®, the world's largest email and Web threat detection network and database. IronPort products are innovative and easy-to-use – providing breakthrough performance and playing a mission-critical role in a company's network infrastructure. To learn more about IronPort Systems products and services, please visit: http://www.ironport.com/.
About Cisco Systems
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