Lab System Administrator

Cisco Silicon One team is undergoing rapid growth, and we are looking for a Lab System Administrator.

The Silicon One labs consist of hundreds of evaluation boards, switches and servers, as well as various storages. These are using various operating systems, BSPs and boot mechanisms.

Meet the Team

Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. Cisco's silicon team provides an outstanding, unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a sizable multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with an on-site gym, healthcare, café, social interest groups, and philanthropy) with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide.

Your Impact

Your role will be to oversee the lab administration, consolidate the Operating systems, BSPs and boot sequence, and create automation that enables us to manage these large labs.

You will enable the absorption of new generations of devices and the rapid growth of our labs.

You will be in charge of moving all equipment to most modern operating systems, while working with the various internal and external vendors for that.

You will oversee the PXE servers and boot mechanism and be in charge of making the mechanism more robust, quick and efficient.

You will enable containerization on top of the evaluation board, enabling more robust testing techniques.

You will be part of the CI-CD team and take active part in the overall work the team is in charge of, being the authority at your domain.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Linux OS fundamentals and filesystem structure.
• Understanding of networking.
• Understanding of storage
• Ability to write scripts (bash, python, etc).
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Nutanix).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing on-premise systems.
• Expertise in automation and central configuration tools (puppet, chef, etc).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, etc)
• Experience with IT work
• Familiarity with containerization
• High ability in troubleshooting IT related issues
• Good communications skills, ability to work together with team members from other teams.
  
  

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