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What will you do at Ciena?
A software designer is required to aid in the development of a Web based/Cloud based, network design and engineering application for Real Time Network Planning. This application is developed for Ciena’s innovative MCP (Management Control and Planning) Software and on standalone Application Cloud Platform. The application will assist customers in the design and development of Ciena’s market leading and pioneering optical products and technologies.
This application is used to design and deploy Ciena’s Transport, Switching and Packet hardware for Long haul, Regional and Metro networks.
The successful candidate will be expected to follow a disciplined approach for developing high quality application, to the required specifications, and by the required delivery date.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team of engineers and software designers.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design and Implement the requirement in software to validate and optimize networks, which are crafted based on a variety of parameters.
- Apply design principles to work in a client server, microservice-based or desktop based development environment and keeping in mind performance and memory constraints.
- Work collaboratively with Product Owners, Product Line Managers (PLM) and Verification team.
- Complete assigned development tasks including unit testing and documenting work.
- Translate functional requirements into development tasks and provide estimates.
- Investigating and debugging of reported issues
- Keep yourself abreast with the newest technology trends
General Activities
- Work in Agile Scrum and build/update Jira’s with detailed description and acceptance criteria.
- Design and Implementation
- Unit testing & integration testing.
- Work with product verification team in resolving feature defects.
Experience
Candidate should have 1+ years of experience in following:
- End-to-end software development (requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and support) - Critical
- Languages, Tools
- React.js, Redux, HTML 5, CSS, SASS / SCSS – Critical
- ES6 / ES7 – Advanced Javascript, Object Oriented Javascript - Critical
- Knowledge of Unit Testing Frameworks like Mocha, Chai, Karma, Jasmine – Critical
- Knowledge of Git -Critical
- E2E Tools – E.g. Protractor- Desirable
- Knowledge of Build Tools – Webpack, babel, make – Desirable
- Experience with Third party JS libraries – Google Maps, D3 - Desirable
- Dynamic Languages - Python – Desirable
- Knowledge of Web Sockets, Authentication, Web Security
- Platform
- Dockers, Linux, MicroServices
- Web Server - NGINX
- Message Queues like Kafka
- Client/Server
- REST API, Web Services, SOAP - Desirable
- Decent Knowledge of Data Structures - Desirable
Additional skills:
- Problem Solving, Excellent Aptitude and Positive Attitude - Critical
- Good Communication Skills - Critical
- Good Interpersonal Skills - Critical
- Exposure to docker containers - Desired
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies – Desired
- Familiarity/experience with other technologies, including; database design, Client/Server etc. is considered an asset
- Prior knowledge of Network Planning Software/EMS/NMS will be an asset
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