Software Engineer Trainee

Cisco — Hyderabad, Telangana

₹5–8 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite

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Quick answer: This trainee intake runs through NATS, the government apprenticeship scheme, so a valid student enrolment number from the NATS portal is the entry ticket. Along with that: a 2025 or 2026 degree in hand and a 12-month commitment from September 2026.

From Cisco's job posting

Meet the Team

Join Cisco Engineering team to help shape the future of AI and critical

infrastructure. As a trainee, you will gain experience in impactful projects such

as using AI to make data centers more energy-efficient and building smart

security systems that stop threats in real time. You will collaborate with top

experts in AI, networking, and cybersecurity to solve major challenges like

optimizing network traffic with machine learning. Cisco’s culture encourages

curiosity, innovation, and purpose, providing an inspiring environment for

software engineers and tech professionals eager to make a real difference. This

is a unique opportunity to grow your skills, contribute to cutting-edge

technology, and thrive in a community passionate about innovation.

Your Impact

  • Programming languages and latest development methodologies
  • Deploying new software and upgrades to a large SaaS environment
  • Change management procedures and deployment processes.
  • Developing one or more tools used within the operations team to automate complex tasks.

Who you are

  • Must have graduated in 2025/2026 and obtained final degree completion certificate or Provisional Degree Certificate
  • Must be available for a period of 12 months starting September 2026.
  • Must have good communication skills, passion for technology and the desire to learn with proactive engagement in a team.
  • Must have enrolled as a "student" on https://nats.education.gov.in/ and have a valid student enrolment number issued by NATS.
  • Be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company jobs site
  • Begin with screening or an interview
  • Originate from a Cisco email address, and
  • Be conducted across email, phone, or Webex

Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask candidates for payments in any way. All formal application's status can be viewed through https://jobs.cisco.com, with all offers coming from Cisco Recruiting mailer with directions to access via a secure portal. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from sites or channels other than above mentioned, please do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Social Security or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.

If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility and cannot be held liable for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

  • be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
  • begin with screening or an interview
  • originate from a Cisco email address, and
  • be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx

Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.

If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility, and cannot be held liable, for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.

The employer’s company overview, benefits and equal-opportunity statement are left out here; they are on the original posting.

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HireSetu's note

Get the NATS enrolment sorted first

The requirement that decides this application is the NATS student enrolment number. NATS is the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme, and Cisco runs this trainee batch through it, so register on the portal and get the number before anything else. Two other details are fixed: a final or provisional degree certificate from a 2025 or 2026 graduation, and a September 2026 start for 12 months. This is an apprenticeship contract, not a permanent graduate offer, so read the scheme's terms closely. The role is onsite in Hyderabad; confirm the campus and the team you'd join for the year.

Releases and the tools that run them

The work splits two ways: deploying new software and upgrades across a large SaaS environment, and building tools that automate repetitive jobs for the operations team. Change management wraps around both, which means scheduled release windows, approvals, rollback plans and documentation. A week is a release pushed through that process, then a script built or fixed so the next one takes less manual effort. That reads as operations and platform work. Know the command line, git and one language well enough to write a script unaided.

Lead with shipped work

Cisco names programming languages, development methodologies, SaaS environments, deployment and upgrades. Skip the wall of languages. Put three projects at the top where something actually ran: an app you deployed, a script that replaced a manual chore, a repo you shared with a team, one line each on what you owned. Communication and proactive engagement are listed requirements, and a group project is where you show them, so name the part you drove. The AI and security examples in the intro describe Cisco's wider engineering work; the trainee lines are deployment and automation, so build the resume around those.

Drafted with AI from Cisco's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.

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