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Cisco Ensoft is a team of around 80 software engineers working for Cisco, the world's largest computer networking company. The Ensoft team deliver software solutions for the most critical and high-capacity routers that run the Internet.
Development is based on the team's renowned development methodology. This approach embraces the innovation of our engineers and provides a framework of collaboration within the team, yet affords management control to ensure high quality and that we meet our delivery dates.
Ensoft was originally a startup, and quickly formed a relationship whereby Cisco gained exclusive access to the technology created by the Ensoft team, as part of Cisco's next-generation operating system. The Cisco products using this technology have been very widely deployed, and form a large fraction of the Internet backbone.
In 2019, this very close relationship was formalised, with Ensoft being acquired by Cisco. This enabled the Ensoft team to continue focussing on creating advanced software, with the full supporting resources of a successful global corporation.
As both an independent company, and more recently as part of Cisco, many things about the Ensoft team have remained consistent:
- A mission to write complex software that matters to the world.
- Taking pride in creating customer satisfaction and business success.
- Growing the team by selecting a few top graduates each year and investing heavily in their training and development. Even the most senior leaders in the team arrived as graduates and evolved into these roles.
- Creating a unique culture that combines supportive collaboration, and world-class excellence. We enjoy each others' company as well as the work.
As a small company, Ensoft climbed the charts of the Sunday Times "100 Best Companies to Work For" list, ending up as the top small software company in the UK, and #3 across all sectors in its final year as an independent company.
Since acquisition, Cisco has, for example, come #1 in the global "World's Best Workplace" awards two years running, and was ranked #2 across UK super-large employers in 2020 and 2022.
