Job description: You will be responsible to design, implement, maintain, and support the client's growing network infrastructure. This position will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available network architectures that meet business objectives and SLAs. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Assist in building out a new ACI network fabric running on Sonic OS.

• Design, Configure, and Deploy Cisco 8K Series Routers

• Research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of (ACI) engineering principles.

• Provide Tier lll technical support for ACI technologies

• Automate and perform daily operational duties supporting the Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure

• Develop and maintain advanced functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts, and trends.

  Qualifications:

• 8+ Years of experience

• Expertise configuring Nexus switches

• Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and automating ACI solutions

• Tier lll escalation support experience in a Data Center environment

• Experience working with Cisco 8K Series Routers - 8100, 8200, 8600, 8800

• Expert executing basic Network Routing Protocols like OSPF, BGP and working knowledge of IS-IS (Integrated Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System) for ACI routing.

• Knowledge of VLAN or MACsec (Media Access Control security)

• Solid understanding of the Data Center industry, products, and protocols.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience

• Advanced verbal and written communication skills

• Effective organizational, planning and time management skills

  Nice to have:

• Experience with SONiC OS or other open-source network operating systems

• Working knowledge of SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface)

• CCNP or CCIE Certification

  SONiC and SAI:

• SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) defines generic, object-based CRUD APIs for switching silicon configuration and monitoring.

• Sonic is an open-source network operating system based on Linux. From a high-level perspective, SONiC architecture consists of a bunch of networking applications that run independently in dedicated Docker containers that use Redis as an information source that shares about configuration and the system's current state.