Photonics Program Management Co-op (Jan-Apr 2025))

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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Why Ciena?

• We're a company rooted in people-seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment, where everyone feels they can belong.
• Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow's future - today.

• Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that the learning doesn't stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success.
• We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine light on their differences outside of working hours too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering.

The Opportunity:

4 month work term: Jan-Apr 2025

How You Will Contribute:

Reporting to the Reconfigurable Line System(RLS) program management team, you will be working with software engineers and test engineers to track the deliverables for RLS releases.

• Participate in release management activities and scrum meetings
• Trouble shoot automated sanity issues, raise Jiras to track them
• Design and develop scripts to assist automated sanities.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• A sense of urgency - what's important to the customer is equally important to you. You make getting things done a priority.
• Integrity - you hold yourself to the highest level of personal and professional standards of conduct.
• A commitment to innovation - you continually seek to learn, understand new technologies and ever-changing market conditions, and endeavour to apply that knowledge to Ciena's advantage.
• You embrace change - thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes stressful situations.
• The flexibility to work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a broader team.

The Must Haves:

• Enrolled in bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent degree
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and programming skills (C, C++, Python)
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent organization skills to manage time, resources, and priorities.
• Familiarity with Linux development environment and devops
• Comfortable in a team environment while still taking accountability and working independently as needed.

Assets:

• Good understanding of micro-service architecture and real-time systems.
• Experience with building APIs and services using CLI, REST, YANG, NETCONF.
• Experience with automated test frameworks such as Jenkins
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Experience with design and development tools such as Bitbucket, Eclipse, JIRA, GDB, Confluence

The pay range for this position is $24.50-$33.00/hr.

Pay ranges at Ciena are designed to accommodate variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations, reflecting our diverse products, industries, and lines of business. Please note that the pay range information provided in this posting pertains specifically to the primary location, which is the top location listed in case multiple locations are available.

In addition to competitive compensation, Ciena offers students access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation pay as required by applicable laws

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At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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