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The successful candidate will be the primary technical owner of Cisco Identity Services Engine in a production enterprise environment, with deep, hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting ISE at scale. This role requires proven expertise in Network Access Control (NAC), 802.1X, policy sets, profiling, posture, guest/BYOD, TACACS+, and identity-based enforcement across wired, wireless, and remote access.\nThe goal is to deliver a rich feature set, high availability, and exceptional performance of automation and orchestration tools while maintaining secure, mission-ready network infrastructure. 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