City : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Category : Engineering

Industry : Telecommunications

Employer : Ciena

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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Ciena Corporation is a network strategy and technology company that translates best-in-class technology into value.  Our passion is to continuously provide an experience that is as rewarding as the outcome.  Our solutions form the foundation of many of the largest, most reliable and sophisticated service provider, enterprise, government, and research and education networks across the globe.   Ciena has been recognized as having an outstanding workplace culture.  

How You Will Contribute:

As a member of the Product Verification team, you will participate in the system level testing of next generation products, testing involve manual and automated tests.  The position includes exposure to technologies including optical transport, packet OTN and ethernet switching. 

• Perform product operational test verification assessments as directed by the project verification leader and help resolve complex technical issues.
• Develop and execute test strategies and test security and network level procedures to evaluate equipment performance against quality objectives.
• Part of the Test team, candidate will fully develop and own the top-level automation scripts and collaborate with the Automation Developers who own the code for infrastructure/building blocks.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and system engineering staff to resolve problems related to specifications and expected customer behavior.
• Work with other test groups on all levels of testing groups including system and network management to ensure customer and product quality objectives are met.
• Analyze test results and assist with investigations and issue resolution.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to develop and program test automation scripts for operation testing, Python programming language is an asset.
• Be able to execute test procedures at a technical level and assess impact at system level.
• Knowledge of optical networking and associated network level concepts.
• Knowledge of Security concepts such as AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) Security Framework, Encryption Key Models, Secure Logging, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes, vulnerability assessments and threat modeling.  Exposure to Penetration Test methodologies would be an asset.
• Knowledge of packet and network level concepts and protocols such as IPv4/IPv6, TCP/IP, WANs, V/LANs, subnetting, HTTP/S, S/FTP, SSL/TLS/SSH, DNS, OSPF, BGP.  Exposure to Cisco or Juniper would be an asset.
• Knowledge of North Bound user interfaces such as CLI, NETCONF, REST, gRPC etc. as well as Network Management Systems.
• Ability to work in teams, to learn and have a good work ethic
• Ability to communicate and document technical issues and to summarize information into formal test reports.
• Ability to understand customer’ perspective with a strong commitment to product excellence.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• One or more of the following Certifications or equivalent would be an asset:
  • Cisco CCNA or CCNP
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • CompTIA Security + or PenTest+
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Compensation and Benefits