Network Lead Engineer (Cisco ACI, CCIE) - Tekfortune Inc.

Position: Network Lead Engineer (Cisco ACI | CCIE)

Remote Work from Home

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Mandatory Skill and Experience: Cisco ACI Technology exp and CCIE Certification required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Predict emerging customer needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them.
• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.
• Participate in the development of business strategy.
• Develop and manage business plans to achieve objectives.
• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives.
• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences.
• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches.
• May have segment-wide impact.
• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams.
• Drive the adoption of reference architectures for existing, new and emerging technologies.
• Drive the adoption of creative solutions to address complex, global enterprise problems utilizing automation as well as DevOps principles.
• Assist customer organizations with planning and implementing complex architecture solutions.
• Participate in enterprise governance processes and drive standards adoption.
• Develop effective architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also deliver a coherent, reusable, reliable and phased architecture to
• help the business grow and change while aligning to strategic vision.
• Deliver technical architecture expertise in implementing cross-organizational information sharing.
• Develop solutions and recommendations for issues caused by process challenges, emerging threats and technology changes

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding on software defined network Cisco ACI Technology
• Should have understanding on Tenant, EPG, Bridge domain, AEP, Policy group, interface profile, L3Out etc.
• Should have strong design knowledge on existing SDN (ACI infra) DC.
• Should deploy new ACI fabric.
• Configure ACI using GUI and automation.
• Create Json code for Automation using API inspector specially for repetitive task.
• Modify existing Json as per the requirement.
• Should understand different PRM types for PRM automation.
• Should be able to coordinate with PRM team for new PRM automation requirement.
• Should have understanding on Github.
• Attend kick off meeting with the stake holders to understand the scope of the project.
• Sound knowledge on fabric upgrade process.
• Good understanding on NSX Tier 0 connectivity with ACI infra.
• Coordinate with different tenant owners for any project requirement and during critical risk changes.
• Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience.
• Past project experience with network architecture, technical design, or implementation.
• Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce architectural principles and designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor s or master s degree in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Information. Systems or related field of study or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Networking technology with 4+ years of experience in a lead role
• 4+ years of architecture/design experience.