Python/Golang Developer- Kubernetes

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.

Why Ciena:  

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work. 
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees. 
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs. 
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities. 
• We know that financial security is important.  We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program. 
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable.  We offer flexible paid time off! 
• Phenomenal work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance. 

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 highly motivated and talented software engineers to join Blue Planet platform team, responsible for building performant, reliable, and maintainable platform services and tools in a large, polyglot, distributed environment.

• Develop micro-services and tools that provide common support for scalable and highly available software system
• Participate in all phases of an agile development cycle – plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
• Strive to make continuous improvement

What Does Ciena Expect of You?  

• Initiative – You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.  
• Agility – you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing priorities.  
• Communication expertise – you possess the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and agreement.  
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.  
• Relationship builder – with an ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done across multi sites.  
• A commitment to innovation – you keep abreast of the market and competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new ideas and problem solve.  

The Must Haves:    

Required experience and skills

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Looking for a working professional with 1+ years of experience.
• Proficient with Golang/Python.
• Proficient with Microservice architecture and Kubernetes
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Assets:  

• Exposure to AI/ML/NLP/LLM
• Exposure to CI/CD
• Database technology including Postgres or Graph databases, etc.
• Good knowledge of OS and software security
• Cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, etc.)
• Customer support.

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