I'm not a Cisco employee, but this Slashdot thread today: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/2016241 ... made me curious about FreeBSD at Cisco. There were a number of jobs that seemed to be primarily FreeBSD-oriented, including jobs relating to ports/package maintenance, kernel development and server management. Here's an example job posting: http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=824944&CurrentPage=2 ----- Cisco's Open Platform Software Technology Center is looking to a maintainer for the userland packages of our internal FreeBSD distribution. The next generation of Cisco's products will be powered by Open Source operating systems and will be built from Open Source components. Our team will build the core technology used in a wide variety of Cisco products. The ideal candidate has strong C programming skills, and is an active contributor to the FreeBSD or other open source community. Experience building and maintaining Linux or FreeBSD distributions is a plus. Experience with network protocols and network devices is also a plus. ----- Could be some good opportunities for FreeBSD folks. Royce -- Royce D. Williams - IP Engineering, ACS http://www.tycho.org/royce/ - PGP: 3FC087DB/1776A531 When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. - Steven Wright
Royce Williams wrote:> I'm not a Cisco employee, but this Slashdot thread today: > > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/2016241 > > > ... made me curious about FreeBSD at Cisco. There were a number of > jobs that seemed to be primarily FreeBSD-oriented, including jobs > relating to ports/package maintenance, kernel development and server > management. Here's an example job posting: > > http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=824944&CurrentPage=2 > > ----- > Cisco's Open Platform Software Technology Center is looking to a > maintainer for the userland packages of our internal FreeBSD distribution. > > The next generation of Cisco's products will be powered by Open Source > operating systems and will be built from Open Source components. Our > team will build the core technology used in a wide variety of Cisco > products. > > The ideal candidate has strong C programming skills, and is an > active contributor to the FreeBSD or other open source community. > Experience building and maintaining Linux or FreeBSD distributions is > a plus. Experience with network protocols and network devices is > also a plus. > ----- > > Could be some good opportunities for FreeBSD folks. > > Royce > >Juniper is doing something similar. http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204802963&cid=nl_tw_networking Brian
On Dec 15, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Royce Williams wrote:> Could be some good opportunities for FreeBSD folks.Definitely! If anybody is interested, let me know. I work for Ironport, which is owned by Cisco, but we fight spam with a big pile of FreeBSD boxes, and would LOVE to have some more smart folks to help us run them. :-) I don't know the job IDs offhand (you can find them off of http://www.ironport.com/company/careers.html), but if you want to help kick spammers where it hurts, let me know. Have fun! -tspencer