Data Center Network Engineer
Cisco Systems
- Richardson, TX
- $126,700-167,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish networking environment by designing network configuration, implementing network infrastructure, defining, documenting, and enforcing standards.
- Improve network performance by supervising, solving, and reviewing network problems and outages, and collaborating with NWS partners and BU to recommend and inspire changes for network optimization.
- Secure 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 by proactively seeing opportunities for technology advancement.
- 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.
- 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.
- Produce method of procedures that demonstrate understanding of changes proposed and how the change will be driven with minimal service impact.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or 10+ years of relevant work experience.
- Strong knowledge in TCP/IP internetworking, Routing, Switching, networking protocols and Routing protocols.
- Experienced at designing and operating Cisco hardware, including Nexus routers, ACI, ASA firewalls, FirePower NGFW's.
- 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
- Expertise on Enterprise & Data Center networking technologies.
- Expertise on the latest Cisco hardware and operating systems (Catalyst, Nexus, IOS/IOS-XE/IOS-XR, NX-OS and ACI)
- Basic knowledge, understanding of Git and REST API Pipelines.
- Expert level internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment.
- CCNP, CCIE or equivalent.
- Must be a great teammate who works 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 skills