Senior Administrator - Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Job Summary

Collaborates with other Consulting Engineers in appropriate technology domains to ensure optimal use of resources to meet customer needs

• Typically interacts with individual contributors, managers, and customers
• Provides input to Sales team on technology solutions for customers Works with customers along with appropriate internal and external resources (e.g. Cisco account teams, partners) on the strategy/deployment/optimization of Cisco services and solutions
• Takes responsibility of task/project implementation for assigned customer engagements
• Captures and contributes to new implementation techniques and methodologies utilized in customer delivery and shares lessons learned with the broader team
• Creates and reviews project deliverables e.g. Design recommendations, High Level Design, Low Level Design, Implementation/Change Management Plans
• Builds and/or leverage test environments as required to resolve complex problems and compatibility issues
• Leverages software skills and tools to configure, deploy and/or troubleshoot Cisco products and solutions. Contributes in the development of digital intellectual capital (e.g. scripts, digital signatures).
• Acts as an initial focal point for problem resolution for assigned customer engagements. Assures proper and quick resolution of major customer problems across an appropriate range of technologies. BE/B.Tech/BSC Computer Science or equivalent

o CCNA is a must, CCNP is a plus, CCIE (ENT/DC) is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

NA

Skill Requirements

Strong Nexus 2K/3K/5K/7K/9K platform knowledge and hands on experience and ACI. o Has knowledge and experience in overlay technologies VXLAN, BGP EVPN, OTV, LISP,VPC,VDC, FabricPath, ISSU and DC-Switching o HSRP, VRRP, VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, MSTP, Macsec, PFC etc. o L2 Switching"

Other Requirements

Prior experience of conducting customer workshops, High level and low level network design experience would be preferred. o Experience with Virtualization (OpenStack / VMware vSphere / Microsoft Hyper V / Red Hat KVM / Linux Containers etc) o Routing & Switching Ent Domain o Knowledge of emerging technologies like SDA/ SDWAN preferred o Knowledge of UCS products and Hyperflex , DCNM, Nexus Dashboard o Network automation skills preferred (Python/ Ansible/ GoLang/ Splunk)