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How You Will Contribute: 

Blue Planet www.blueplanet.com, the software division of Ciena, provides best-in-class intelligent automation software and niche professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes—critical to facilitating digital transformation and an adaptive network.  

 

We are looking for a highly motivated and talented software engineer experienced with Python development to work on developing & maintaining Blue Planet’s Resource Adapters (RA), device simulators and RA generator tool. You will be implementing data models, ingress and egress adaptation layer components between Blue Planet Orchestrator and external devices in micro-services oriented, container-based system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software micro-services, libraries, and features for Resource Adapters, NETCONF/YANG based device simulator, and tool to auto-generate data model and RA pipeline
• Create automated test suites for executing test automation of RA features
• Troubleshooting & fixing product issues found in system integration testing and customer deployments
• Work closely with local and remote software development & test teams
• Participate in all phases of the development cycle – plan, design, implement, test, deploy, and documentation
  
  

Required Experience And Skills

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science.
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms & design patterns
• Development experience, preferably using Python in Linux environment
• Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages, frameworks, and technologies
• Ability to write understandable, reliable and testable code with minimum supervision
  
  

Desirable Knowledge Or Experience In (a Plus – Not Mandatory)

• Distributed platforms and stream processing using Kafka or similar systems
• Cloud environments (e.g., Docker, AWS, Openstack etc.)
• Basic understanding of NETCONF, YANG and Telecom domain
• Fundamentals of SDN and NFV (Network function virtualization)
• Interfaces to SD-WAN Controllers, NMS/EMS, Virtualized Infrastructure Managers
  
  

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