Why You’ll Love Cisco

Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more relevant than ever before in our lives. Our employees' ground-breaking ideas impact everything imaginable - from entertainment, retail, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, smart-cities, smart cars, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means you’ll take creative ideas from the drawing board to powerful solutions that have real world impact. You’ll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with expert mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You’ll be part a team that cares about its customers & partners, enjoys having fun, and you’ll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be inspired.

Your Extended Team

At Cisco Belgium, we are exploring new technologies and future solutions that cover Cisco’s main technologies such as:

• Cybersecurity
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Building
• Sustainability
• Cloud Native Applications and Web 3.0 Platforms
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization & containerization
• Software integration (API)

The thesis can address one of the following topics:

• Smart Building: automate the integration of 3rd party control system (eg: air quality control) into a smart building demo room
• Sustainability: using automation & AI, optimize the power consumption of an office infrastructure (Wired & wireless network w/o PoE) matching the usage patterns of the office population
• Customer/Citizen experience 2.0: using Open-roaming in combination with public WIFI & a mobile APP to create a virtual queueing system, avoiding user to be physically going into one location, taking a physical ticket and waiting in a room
• Automation: automate infrastructure configuration and deployment in an Industrial OT environment
• Analytics: deploying and integrating infrastructure or application analytics solution
• Machine learning (AI): study of ML technologies, deployment of an accelerated compute cluster and application to a real data set
• Multicloud: from automated application deployment to creating a secure hybrid infrastructure (On premise cloud connected to a public cloud)

What you need to be eligible:

• Currently in your last year of studies pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Informatics, Data Science, Information Technology, MIS, Mathematics, Physics, or other equivalent degree.
• Strong academic background with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for technology, creative thinker and problem solver
• Demonstrable skills: Communication, influencing, organization, adaptability, flexibility, and highly self-motivated
• Technical background in one of several of these points:
  • Full-stack web development (eg: Javascript D3.js, node.js, HTML5, etc.)
  • Interactions with REST APIs and JSON / XML
  • Python programming (2.7 and 3.0)
  • Docker containers
  • Hypervisors (Vmware, Linux, Microsoft)
• Demonstrate leadership and interpersonal skills, collaboration, ability to work in collaborative environment – all with a positive demeanor
• Fluent in English and Dutch and/or French

What’s in it for you:

• Work on a very relevant topic for enterprises & public institutions
• Access to various Cisco experts and – if required – experts at customers and partners
• Learn about Cisco’s extensive innovation portfolio
• Develop unique skills in very job demanding areas of expertise
• Apply your knowledge on a concrete use case
• Access ground-breaking technologies