Cisco ACI Engineer

Description

Responsibilities Design and deploy Data Center Networks utilizing industry best practices and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and Nexus 9k platforms.
Develop and perform migration from traditional data center network designs to Cisco ACI.
Integrate services appliances to Cisco ACI deployments to include Application Delivery Controllers and Firewalls.
Monitor network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
Create Low Level Design, High Level Design, Implementation Plan, and Acceptance Test Plan documents in accordance with customer and WWT standards.
Perform installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of customer managed hardware, software and peripheral devices.
Conduct research on network products, services, protocols and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.
Oversee/perform new and existing equipment, hardware and software upgrades.
Qualifications WWT recognizes the technology qualifications below are quite extensive. It is expected the team of ACI engineers will encompass all skillsets below, while an individual applicant need only possess several.
Bachelor's Degree in Business or Technology desired.
10+ years in a highly technical role that spans multiple disciplines
Extensive knowledge of current and upcoming technologies / trends.
Basic knowledge of routing and switching technologies.
Certified as CCNP or equivalent level of skills and experience.
Experience configuring and deploying enterpriseclass networks including the following products Cisco Catalyst Switches
Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k Switches
Cisco Nexus 9k Switches
Cisco ASR / ISR Routers
Cisco ASA Firewalls
F5 BigIP Appliances
Citrix NetScaler Appliances
Check Point Firewalls
Palo Alto Firewalls
Sound understanding of SDN concepts and architecture. Including hands on experience with at least one SDN controller architecture (ex. Open Daylight, Cisco APIC, VMWare NSX).
Hands on experience on how to create different application policies in the ACI including Tenants, Application Network Profile (ANP), End Point Group (EPG), Contracts, Subjects and Filters
Hands on experience on the Fabric Access Policy including how to create switch policies, interface policies, AEPs, Physical and External Domains
Hands on experience on Fabric Discovery Activity including Out of Band Configuration, Verifying the APIC Health, Verifying the LEAF Health and Verifying remote access to all the out of band management devices
Knowledge on ACI Stretch Fabric, ACI MultiPod and ACI MultiSite
Minimum 23 years experience with at least one compute virtualization platform VMware, vSphere, Microsoft HyperV or KVM.
Ability to perform basic installation and administration of Windows Server and Linux platforms.
Familiarity with at least one configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Salt and/or automation scripting with Python or PowerShell.
Familiarity with software version management tools such as Git/GitHub.
Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
A thorough understanding of the best practices for services execution.
Strong customer service orientation.
Experience working in a teamoriented, collaborative environment.
A selfstarter who exudes positive energy and can rally those around them to a common goal