Data Center Network Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 01/15/2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

We are the Data Center Network Services team within Cisco IT that supports network services for Cisco Engineering and business functions worldwide. Our mission is simple - build the network of the future that is adaptable and agile on Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a software-defined networking solution. ACI is deployed, monitored, and managed with a DevOps approach to support rapid application changes. We invest in transformative technologies that enable us to deliver services in a fast and reliable manner.

Your Impact:

• You will design, develop, test and deploy DC network SDN capabilities within Data Center Network.
• You are engaging and comfortable collaborating with fellow engineers across multiple disciplines as well as internal clients.

Our minimum qualifications for this role:

• Bachelor of Engineering or Technology with a minimum of 5 years of experience in designing, deploying, operating and managing scalable DC network infrastructure

• Experience on managing and supporting large scale DC networking technologies and experience in technologies like Routing, switching, SDN / ACI, Nexus, VPC, VDC, VLAN, VXLAN, Local load balancer, Global load balancer, application Firewall, etc.

• CCNA certification

Our Preferred qualifications for this role

• Possess strong DC network technology skills with experience with atleast 2 years of experience using Python and Ansible

• High level understanding of private/public cloud.

• Familiarity with DevOps principles, Comfortable with Agile practices

• Basic understanding of Unix/Linux

• Basic knowledge, understanding of Git and REST API.
• Working experience with HW/Platform: Nexus, Cisco IOS, Experience on handling incident, problem and change management

• CCNP or CCIE is a plus

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