Director, SW QA Engineering - Cloud - Chennai - Hybrid

Engineering Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu


Description

At Gigamon, our purpose is to protect the hybrid networks and data of the largest, most complex organizations on the planet. Certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps our customers to eliminate security blind spots, optimize network traffic, and dramatically reduce tool cost and complexity, enabling them to better secure and manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.

Gigamon is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for our Cloud-Suite team. The right candidate will build and lead top-notch engineering teams working on the design and development of test frameworks and automation, and solutions to enable customer adoption of Cloud-Suite including hybrid Cloud Deployments. Working as part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment to achieve project deliverables and will have the opportunity to make a significant impact to the product lines.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead all quality engineering efforts related to cloud suite
  • Lead cloud automation solutions
  • Lead and champion cutting edge CI/CD framework and processes
  • Formulate and manage QA Goals, and drive strategy and execution for Gigamon Cloud Suites with customer success as the focus
  • Work effectively with all stakeholders and engineers throughout the lifecycle of the product to deliver a competitive product with the right quality in a fast-paced environment
  • Work with Product Management, Development, Technical Support and customers to define the product backlog, roadmap, test methodologies, deployment solutions and plans
  • Hire, retain, develop, and motivate a world-class team of engineers to be able to produce cutting-edge competitive products
  • Understand the product architecture/design, tools, customer deployment scenarios, and influence decisions to keep them cutting-edge and highly effective

Requirements:

  • 15+ years of hands-on professional experience designing and developing Development and QA functions on Embedded systems and Public/Private Cloud
  • 7+ years of hands-on engineering management experience delivering high quality enterprise software
  • Working Knowledge in a mutli-cloud environment in two or more of these:
    • Virtualization: VMware, Nutanix
    • Private Cloud: OpenStack
    • Containers: Kubernetes running Public Cloud, BareMetal
    • Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
  • Familiarity with automation and infrastructure as code toolchain e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible
  • Familiarity with cloud cost management
  • SRE/Cloud-Ops experience is a plus
  • Provides direction, leadership, and specialist knowledge to the Solution QA team to assist in designing, demonstrating and deploying Gigamon Cloud Suites that address customer needs
  • Experience with practices in Agile environment, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to manage across functional and geographic boundaries
  • Experience in managing teams developing/testing software for networking protocols including TCP/IP and ethernet protocols
  • Excellent written/oral communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • BS (or higher degree) in CS or related field

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at (669) 240-2248.

If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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We may use automated tools, including AI-based systems, to help screen and evaluate application materials for this role. These tools are designed to assess job-related qualifications only and do not make final hiring decisions; human reviewers remain involved in the process. Further, Gigamon uses Jobvite, developed by Employ, to screen and evaluate all Gigamon applicant resumes. The system analyzes resumes for skills, experience, and qualifications and processes employment history, education, and skills. This AI-based system is used for all Gigamon positions. For questions, contact [email protected]. You have the right to request reasonable accommodation; to do so, please send a message to [email protected].