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The team leverages Cisco Modeling Labs (CML), physical network hardware, and virtualized network platforms to emulate complex enterprise campus, branch, WAN, and Data Center architectures. Together, we enable software development, network automation, testing, and validation across enterprise and Data Center environments.\nYour Impact\nDesign, deploy, and maintain robust hybrid network lab environments combining physical hardware and virtual network topologies using Cisco Modeling Labs (CML).\nIntegrate, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco’s enterprise and Data Center portfolio, including Cisco SD-WAN (vManage/Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, vBond, vSmart, cEdge/vEdge routers), Catalyst campus and branch switches and routers, Nexus switches, MDS storage switches, and firewalls, alongside third-party devices and virtual network functions.\nArchitect and simulate multi-tenant WAN, campus, branch, and Data Center fabrics incorporating transport-independent overlay networks, secure segmentation, application-aware routing, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics, and Data Center bridging and switching architectures.\nCollaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and QA teams to support reproducible test scenarios, CI/CD pipelines, and network automation use cases.\nOptimise lab capacity, performance, resource allocation, and virtualisation nodes to ensure high availability, low-latency emulation, and efficient utilisation of testing topologies.\nTroubleshoot complex campus and branch wired and wireless networks, SD-WAN overlay/underlay connectivity, BGP and OSPF routing, Data Center switching fabrics, and virtualisation issues, ensuring timely resolution and comprehensive documentation.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Networking, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nProfessional experience in network engineering, lab management, or infrastructure operations. (The required number of years should be specified.)\nHands-on experience with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) or similar network emulation and simulation platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Cisco enterprise networking and Data Center technologies, including Catalyst switches and routers, Nexus switches, MDS storage switches, firewalls, and Cisco SD-WAN components.\nHands-on experience with routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF, SD-WAN overlay/underlay connectivity, network segmentation, VXLAN/EVPN, and Data Center bridging and switching.\nExperience designing and managing hybrid network labs comprising physical devices, virtual network topologies, and third-party network platforms.\nFamiliarity with network automation, CI/CD pipelines, software testing, and validation workflows.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. 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