Lead System Engineer - ACI COE

Relevant experience: 10-15 years

• Primary Skills – Expert in on Datacenter Network with product experience on Cisco ACI,

• Able to help with Deploy and Troubleshoot above technologies without any supervision .

• Experience in working on heterogeneous network with managing various technologies .

• Able to Train Junior members in the team

• Proficient on DC deployment with VRF , MPLS , VXLAN, Cisco Nexus and routing Protocol .

• Expert on BGP and OSPF Routing protocols

• Troubleshooting skills on Production issues using Various tools – Splunk , Netflow , Debugging of network logs

• Review Network standards and recommend new hardware standards on Datacenter networking

• Plan, design, and document ACI architecture and deploy automated templates (with zero touch provisioning) to all locations.

• Configure security zones & VRF’s to control the traffic on ACI.

• Developing, implementing, and deploying ACI, NDO, NDI, Multipod and VXLAN

• Providing support and troubleshooting technical issues

• Creating and following ACI implementation plans

• participate in other next-gen technical project delivery

• Work with cross functional team for solution development and training and knowledge sharing

• Acts a single point of Technical contact during Technical Escalation Management

• Practices to make devices & operations more efficient

• Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature.

• Overall responsibility of expert level for technical support (Incident, Problem, Critical Changes)

• Good to moderate knowledge on IP Networking CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)

• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.

• Good communication skills

• Take the lead in outage calls

• Own and drive root cause and permanent resolution

• Perform moderate network changes

• CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)

• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.

• Review network design and provide recommendation on Low Level Designs and configuration standards

• Able to debug production issues

• Scripting knowledge using Python or Ansible

• Able to lead production issues and manage issues with large senior stakeholders

Day to day work:

• Review the existing process and update it for being more autonomous.

• Propose new process and create new documentations.

• Define improvement plan: how to decrease number of alarm and escalations.

• Deal with Paris NRE TEAM to have approval or be autonomous on the resolution of the incident / alarms.

• Give an improvement plan for reducing number of tickets escalated to Paris team.