Cisco Work Values

Daily Duties at Cisco:

Profile: Leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies i.e. routers, swtiches, voice data communications in the world market space. Function: Performance certification for quarterly releases, Production metrics collection, Capacity Planning assessments, Release Impact Analysis, Architectural evaluations, Test Strategy, Monitoring Strategy, Test Metrics Collection, Bottleneck Analysis, JVM Tuning, Report, Production support Environment: § Web Sphere, Web Sphere Portal, Oracle AS, Linux, HP, Oracle, KShell & Perl scripts, Introscope, Auptyma, LoadRunner Responsibilities: u Current Production Release, Architecture and Production User & System Metrics u New Release Impact Analysis, Business Impact, System Impact, User Impact, Usage Impact, Capacity assessments for additional memory, threads, connections, JVM’s and Servers u Business Process & Data flow analysis, Architecture, Integration points and boundary applications, Upstream and Downstream dependencies u Application business flows, flow trigger events, triggered backend processes, user, usage and system impact quantification on system resources i.e. cpu, memory, disk, network utilizations u Performance risk assessment, Identification of performance critical candidates for performance testing, concurrent users, user transaction throughput, user distributions, network latency effects u Identification of performance requirements i.e. SLA, Availability, Scalability etc u Identification of performance test strategy based on test inputs, test requirements to assure performance in production u Record Virtual User scripts using Load Runner, correlation, parameterization, load test scenario creation and test execution u Identification of monitoring and metrics collection strategy for performance and bottleneck analysis and reports u Identification of performance environment based on production scale factor and unit of deployment sizing and hardware class. u Identification of test security requirements i.e. number of users, user ids etc u Identification of test data requirements i.e. master data, transaction data and synthetic data generation for new table data sets u Monitoring of JVM during testing and metrics collection i.e. concurrent requests, active user threads, garbage collection, heap usage, jvm cpu utilizations, database connections, thread dumps, heap dumps u Performance analysis, bottleneck determination, tuning recommendations and reports u Release risk analysis and mitigation plans u Production monitoring and support

What they like about Cisco:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

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P&L responsibilities, Presentation, Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Cisco: