Cisco Infrastructure Support Engineer – Tier 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

994673184

Infrastructure Support Engineer – Tier 2

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Who You’ll Work With

Who You Are

This role focuses on device management, remediation, event analysis, and providing world-class customer service. Job responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems in sophisticated customer networks, working in a global 24x7 organization. An ideal candidate will have prior NOC/SOC experience, working against timelines in a fast-paced environment. A strong working understanding of network, compute, storage and virtualization platforms and technologies is vital for a successful candidate. Superb communication skills over video, web conference, and chat are required to succeed in the global Team.

What You’ll Do

Ensure 24/7 availability of the production environment and daily operations.

Assist in the the root cause analysis process and help with remediation of major issues.

Ability to assist in a support capacity with problem and incident resolution and assume incident and problem ownership and accountability.

Assist with issues related to firmware and report issues and suggest enhancements.

A basic understanding of the ITIL framework and its application in a production environment.

Troubleshoot & resolve the incidents and problem tickets within SLA/SLO.

Work with senior technical resources on complex issues and major incidents resolution.

Develop and maintain a working knowledge of existing and new technologies and be able to tie the design and implementation of infrastructure to the managed components.

Work with technical leaders to understand products and project requirements.

Serve as first point of escalation on all incidents.

Required Technical Skills/Qualifications

Good knowledge about Nexus devices and Hyperflex solutions.

Technical knowledge of the following areas: Data Centre Networking and Data Centre Products.

You should have experience in Networking industry experience and knowledge of products and protocols.

Experience in administration and troubleshooting of mixed environment (physical and virtual servers).

Technical knowledge and experience in overlay technologies VXLAN, BGP EVPN, ACI, etc.

knowledge and experience with virtualization and container environments (VMware vSphere suite) and have technical exposure in integrating ACI with virtualization platforms through VMM integration.

Basic knowledge and understandings on L2 / L3 networking protocols and technologies (VPC, STP, HSRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP)

Basic understanding of ITIL framework (Event, Incident, Change, Service Request & Problem Management)

Good analytical and troubleshooting skills with an initiative to drive problems to resolution.

Required Professional Qualifications

Typically requires bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent plus 3-5 years related Data Centre and Network related experience.

1-3 years of experience in Data Centre technology at a Network Operations Centre or Technical Assistance Centre.

Strong technical experience in Data Centre, Cloud & Virtualization technologies.

Preferred Technical Skills/ Qualifications

CCNP DataCenter / CCNP Routing & Switching certification is a plus.

Certification on any Virtualization platform is a plus.

Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Ansible, etc.)

Prior working experience in Managed Services environment

A strong understanding of the ITIL framework and its application in a production environment is preferrable.