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Cisco Senior Data Center Network Engineer United States, North Carolina, Cary 790017255
14.08.2024
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What You’ll Do:
In this role, you will be working in a fast-paced, high-impact environment as a visible contributor, delivering on our commitments to clients and helping to set long term directions. The ideal candidate is a technical leader, forward looking and strategic thinker, creative problem solver, comfortable with providing domain expertise and rapidly responding to advanced issues.
- 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 and maintain enterprise network
- Produce method of procedures that demonstrate understanding of changes proposed and how the change will be driven with minimal service impact.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience designing and operating Cisco hardware, including switches, Nexus routers, ACI, ASA firewalls, FirePower NGFW’s.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or in a related field, or 9+ years of data center network infrastructure work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge in TCP/IP internetworking, Routing, Switching, networking protocols and Routing protocols.
- Experience in 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.
- Experience with Global and Local load balancers.
- Experience on Enterprise & Data Center networking technologies.
- Experience on the 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.
- Experience in Network Automation, SD and CI/CD Pipelines.
- Experience in internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment.
- CCNP / CCIE equivalent is a plus.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Must be a great teammate and work well in small and large group environments.
- 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).
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