SberSDN

2023: Product Development

Sberbank is recruiting a team to develop a new solution - SberSDN, which "will be comparable to products such as Vmware NSX, Tungsten Fabric, Cisco ACI." This is indicated in a number of vacancies published by Sberbank in April 2023 at recruiting sites. For example, in an engineer DevOps vacancy, the ^[1].

The specified import solutions are used in building SDN (software-defined network). This is an approach to network virtualization and containerization that helps optimize network resources and quickly adapt networks to changing business needs, applications, and traffic. Such networks operate by separating the control and data processing planes of the network to create a programmable infrastructure.

Sberbank is recruiting a team of developers for a new large-scale project "(photo - Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC)"

SDN is something that any large organization cannot exist without. If you want to participate in a team that will build its own SDN in Sberbank and automate many processes related to the network infrastructure, then you are definitely with us, - says the description of the DevOps engineer vacancy.

It is also noted that we are talking about a large-scale project to create SDN from scratch.

The senior Python developer, who is also required in this team and who Sberbank is ready to pay from 350 thousand rubles^[2], for example, will have to solve such problems as developing the architecture of a new product without legacy cargo, integrating with various systems within the bank: rest, message brokers, queues and a number of other tasks.

TAdviser sent a request to Sberbank regarding this development, but the bank could not tell about the details of the project.

In February 2022, Sberbank signed a contract for the supply of a software-defined load balancer VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer and its technical support, designed for a period until 2025. The volume of the contract amounted to about 1.75 billion rubles at the Central Bank exchange rate at that time^[3].

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