Senior Automation Engineer (Platform) - Python Scripting, Networking, Docker/Kubernetes (7-12 years of experience)

Duo Security

Duo Security

Software Engineering
Posted on Dec 2, 2025

Who we are:

Cisco is transforming the networking industry. To make this happen, we are heavily investing in team responsible for The Network. Intuitive. We are disrupting the industry by building a new networking platform that can learn, adapt, and secure itself at the speed of today’s businesses. This Digital Network Architecture platform automates network management and provides our customers with state-of-the-art analytics and insights.

What You'll Do:

You will closely work with on Platform as Service Infrastructure that scales to run big data analytics and orchestration software offering

Bring a strong perspective of Quality, testing methodologies, Automation of Testing cycles, build simple solutions to sophisticated problems in the areas Development & Test and Efficiency Tools Development.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with a team to develop the test infrastructure

  • Work with the engineering team during the feature design and implementation phases to develop test automation

  • Develop Test tools and Test framework required for testing

  • Collaborate with other testing members, developers, technical writers, and customer solutions engineers to ensure the company delivers high quality products to our customers.

  • Build tools to automate the process of test result analysis and bug creation Supervise and lead continuous integration environment


Desired skills:

  • 7+ years’ experience with testing "systems" products, applications, (network analytics, networking, virtualization, etc.) including Testing tools development

  • Expertise in building test infrastructure, knowledge of open source and reporting tools

  • Hands on experience using Docker and Kubernetes is must.

  • Test Automation using Python is must

  • Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology.

  • Good knowledge of Linux and should become comfortable with shell. Prior experience of programming, preferably in Python

  • Knowledge of ESXi, HyperV, KVM is a plus.

  • Knowledge of DB’s like MongoDB, Postgres and their clustering mechanisms is a plus.

  • Knowledge of Messaging Solutions like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc is a plus.

  • Experience with distributed systems (databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.) is a plus.


Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.