Software Engineering DevOps New Grad - Remote, India - Ciena

Description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Why Ciena?

• We're a company rooted in people—seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.
• Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow's future – today.
• Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that learning doesn't stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success.
• We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine a light on their differences outside of working hours, too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering.

Role overview

• If you want to be exposed to the latest technologies, such as Linux, Docker, and Cloud, and you love to work with various technologies, tools, and environments, this position is for you.
• You will work with the PRISM Release Engineering team to provide the tools and services to enable Ciena R&D DevOps.
• Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, offers leading network infrastructure solutions, intelligent software, and a comprehensive services practice. Our software-centric optical and Ethernet platform portfolio combines network element programmability, operating system commonality and management unification, and Carrier Ethernet-based transformation to enable our customers to change how they compete. Our solutions form the foundation of many of the largest, most reliable, and most sophisticated service providers, enterprise, government, and research and education networks across the globe.

Why is this role important within Ciena? What impact can you expect to have?

• Improve the efficiency of R&D design teams by driving cost reductions and productivity enhancements.
• Improve the overall developer experience for Ciena engineers.

What type of work environment will you be working in? Who are the key teams with whom you will interact?

• You will have end-to-end responsibilities from requirements to implementation and deployment.
• Applying the latest industry technologies (Linux, Docker, Cloud) to develop and support in-house, open-source, and commercial software.
• Interacting with a globally distributed team of product designers.

Within 1 month, you'll:

• Complete our onboarding program, taking notes on what you could improve later.
• Meet your new teammates and learn about Ciena products and the role that PRISM Release Engineering has in the company.
• Gather an understanding of our technology by job shadowing your teammates, participating in joint work sessions, and attending knowledge-sharing and training sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Have an assigned buddy within the team who will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture, tools, and current projects.
• Contribute to defining what a good developer experience means at Ciena.
• Ship new features and bug fixes to improve our tools and environments.

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Interact with the engineers we support as they work with our tooling, taking note of their feedback and issues they encounter.
• Contribute to and support work in a new or existing tool and share your accomplishments with the team.

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Reliably ship new tools and improvements to existing tools to the wider R&D teams.
• Understand our existing tools and environments. You'll be able to provide input that shapes future directions.
• Develop a big-picture perspective. Understanding how our tools and environments come together. You'll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases.

Within 12 months, you'll:

• Plan, scope, and implement a new tool used daily by hundreds of engineers or more.
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the team.
• Mentor new teammates and help them reach the milestones you've now achieved.

Skills we're looking for:

Required Skills:

• Team Player
• Self-Motivated
• Good Communicator
• Problem Solver
• Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn
• Curiosity and a deep interest in fast, reliable, streamlined developer experience
• A passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers. We value making each other successful

Key Technical Skills:

Experience or strong willingness to learn a subset of the following:

• Programming Languages: Java (including Spring/Hibernate), Python, Bash
• Web Technologies: HTML 5, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Angular, REST, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Deployment Technologies: Docker, OpenStack, Ansible
• Version Control Systems: Git, Perforce
• Operating Systems: Linux
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Atlassian tools like Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence