Manager SDET, IPSECGRE

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Netskope

Today theres more data and users outside the enterprise than inside causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud Network and Data Security.

Since 2012 we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara St. Louis Bangalore London Paris Melbourne Taipei and Tokyo. Our core values are openness honesty and transparency and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships collaboration and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON) we strive to keep work fun supportive and interactive.Visit us atNetskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Netskope.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Manager SDET to lead quality engineering for our IPSec and GRE datapath services which are core to our cloud networking and security platform. This role requires deep understanding of networking fundamentals tunneling protocols and large-scale distributed systems combined with strong people leadership and execution rigor.

You will own test strategy quality outcomes and release readiness for IPSec and GRE services operating at massive scale across global POPs.

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Quality Leadership

Own the end-to-end quality strategy for IPSec and GRE datapath services.
Define and drive functional scale performance longevity and resiliency testing for tunneling services.
Ensure coverage across:
IPSec (IKEv1/IKEv2 tunnel lifecycle rekeying DPD NAT-T)
GRE tunnels and steering scenarios
Encryption algorithms MTU handling fragmentation PMTU MSS clamping
Failure scenarios (link flaps tunnel churn node failures failover)
Partner closely with Engineering Product and PE/Ops teams to ensure production-grade readiness.

Release & Production Readiness

Lead release qualification for IPSec/GRE features and changes.
Drive risk assessment go/no-go decisions and rollout readiness.
Ensure test plans explicitly cover production learnings regressions and customer escalations.
Champion shift-left testing and prevention of production issues through better qualification.

Automation & Test Infrastructure

Drive automation strategy for datapath validation including:
Tunnel bring-up and teardown
Traffic generation and validation
Failure injection and chaos testing
Ensure scalable and repeatable test frameworks for multi-POP environments.
Partner with automation engineers to balance automation vs exploratory testing.

People & Team Leadership

Manage and mentor a team of QA engineers working on IPSec/GRE.
Set clear expectations career paths and technical growth plans.
Raise the bar on ownership accountability and quality mindset.
Build a culture of deep debugging root cause ownership and learning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Act as the quality voice in cross-functional forums.
Work closely with:
Datapath and platform engineering
Platform engineering and SRE teams
Product Management
Drive alignment on quality standards SLAs and operational readiness.

Required Qualifications

Experience

12 years in QA / Quality Engineering with 3 years in a leadership or manager role.

Hands-on experience testing networking or security products.

Proven experience owning release qualification for critical systems.

Technical Skills

Strong understanding of:

IPSec GRE VPN technologies
TCP/IP UDP MTU fragmentation routing
Linux networking and packet-level debugging
Experience with tools such as:
tcpdump Wireshark
Traffic generators (TRex iPerf Spirent IxNetwork etc.)
Familiarity with cloud-native or distributed systems is a strong plus.

Nice to Have

Experience with VPP-based datapaths DPDK or high-performance networking.
Exposure to cloud firewall SD-WAN or SASE platforms.
Experience working with large-scale production environments and global POPs.

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Manager

About NetskopeToday theres more data and users outside the enterprise than inside causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud Net...