Cisco Data Center Network Engineer Nexus/ACI/Firewalls Design & Implementation 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

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What You’ll Do:

Responsibilities:

• Establish networking environment by designing network configuration, directing, implementing network infrastructure, defining, documenting, and enforcing standards.
• Improve network performance by monitoring, troubleshooting, and reviewing network problems and outages, and collaborating with NWS partners and BU to recommend and inspire changes for network optimization.
• Secures network infrastructure by defining and establishing policies, in conjunction with the Security and other partner teams.
• Be able to look at complicated network systems to find flaws or room for improvement. Proactively see opportunities for technology advancement and opportunities for automation.
• Plan and coordinate the implementation of network technologies, solutions, and automations in support of defined requirements generated by internal customers, industry directions, and growth demands. Plan and facilitate highly complex network and automation upgrades and migration activities.
• Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly complex network and automation problems.
• Generates operational documentation including detailed test plan for highly complex networks.
• Assist with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems. Help with developing tools set to manage andmaintain enterprise network
• Produce method of procedures that demonstrate understanding of changes proposed and how the change will be driven with minimal service impact.

Who You’ll Work With:

You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired. Imagine a more secure and smarter world with unlimited bandwidth.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or 9+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge in TCP/IP internetworking, Routing, Switching, networking protocols and Routing protocols.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating Cisco hardware, including Nexus routers, ACI, ASA firewalls, FirePower NGFW’s.
• Virtualization technologies, both networking (VRF, VDC) and understanding of compute (Linux, VMware, Openstack).
• Knowledge of Software development and Network Automation, including Python, REST APIs, Ansible
• Comfortable working with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile methodology, and CI/CD.Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Global and Local load balancers
• Expertise on Enterprise & Data Center networking technologies.
• Expertise on latest Cisco hardware and operating systems (Catalyst, Nexus, IOS/IOS-XE/IOS-XR, NX-OS and ACI)
• Large-scale network infrastructure support skills and In-depth knowledge of network management, network availability, and network automation.
• Basic knowledge, understanding of Git and REST API.
• Expertise in Network Automation, Software Development and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Expert level internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment.
• CCNP / CCIE equivalent is desirable.

Behavioral Competencies:

Must be highly driven and motivated with high level of initiative.

Must have excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skill

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).