Consulting Engineer, Data Center, ACI

Role Title: Data Center, ACI

Travel: Up to 30%

Location: Egypt

Meet the Team

Our team is committed to fostering a supportive and engaging environment. Here, you'll have the opportunity to learn from industry-leading experts, ensuring not only your professional growth but also your personal development.

You’ll collaborate with a group of exceptionally talented individuals, including world-class technical experts in a wide range of technologies, all working together towards a common goal with dedication and expertise, while supporting a diverse array of large customers across the region.

We tackle a variety of projects that vary in size and scope, with our current focus on preparing our customers for the exciting future ready AI Transformation.

Your Impact

• Provide Planning, Designing, Implementation and Optimization services to Cisco Advanced Services Customers around Cisco’s Data Center
• Establish trusted advisor relationship with customer management and teams on Data Center Infrastructure areas and future technology trends.
• Participates in or leads complex Data Center and Cloud infrastructure (network, storage and compute) design/implementation and migration, performance engineering or problem resolution projects.
• Solves complex, issues that cross many technologies in network, server, storage, O/S, virtualization, consolidation, middleware, security, applications, operations, content switching, caching and/or content delivery networks, and security.
• Applies good analytic process to help bring any issue to resolution.
• Delivers migration plans, with a thorough understanding on networked applications and related dependencies.
• Ensure compliance to delivery methodology operational structure, roles & responsibilities.
• Track deliverables against the engagement schedule and support the PM track financial, resource and material requirements for the engagements.
• Guide other consultants and engineers, resolving challenges and ensuring customer success.

Minimum Qualifications:

• CCIE or equivalent Knowledge
• Very good knowledge on Enterprise Routing and Switching technologies.
• Solid understanding and Hands on experience of ACI Implementations.
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience.
• Strong customer-facing and communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding and Hands on experience of VXLAN Implementations.
• Nexus 5K/7K/9K platforms product architecture knowledge and hands on experience including Fabric Path, OTV, VDC and VPC.
• Good knowledge on NGFW and Load Balancer solutions
• Experience with network visualization and automation tools to simplify VXLAN deployment.
• Strong documentation and technical reporting skills for tracking configurations and changes.
• Excellent understanding of the industry landscape (competitors and partners).
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience with Cisco ACI.
• Experience in Networking Protocols and Service Configurations: Detailed knowledge of OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, EIGRP, VxLAN
• Experience in Cisco ACI Multisite and Multipod deployments.
• Experience in Cisco NDO and NDI.

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

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