Consulting Engineering Technical Leader

Meet the Team As a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader specializing in Data Center Architectures within Cisco Customer Experience (CX), you will provide senior technical leadership, strategic architectural vision, and innovation across mission-critical data center infrastructures at regional and global scale. You will act as the premier trusted advisor to senior customer executives, guiding large-scale cloud-scale data center transformations, shaping multi-year technology roadmaps, and ensuring investments deliver measurable resilience and agility. Our team leads the industry in deploying next-generation programmable fabrics, including Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), Nexus Dashboard, and NX-OS EVPN-VXLAN multi-site fabrics. Marrying deep protocol mastery with modern Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps), AIOps, and AI/ML data center networking, you will influence Cisco's product direction, elevate delivery methodologies, and develop the next generation of data center architects.

Your Impact

Strategic Data Center Architectural Leadership: Provide domain-wide and cross-domain architectural leadership, serving as the primary trusted advisor to senior customer leadership on high-stakes, multi-site Data Center transformations and migrations. Lead ACI & EVPN-VXLAN Fabric Architecture: Lead the strategic planning, design, and deployment of complex Data Center switching fabrics, including Cisco ACI (Multi-Pod, Multi-Site / Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, L4-L7 Service Graph integration) and NX-OS EVPN-VXLAN programmable fabrics on Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches. Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps Orchestration: Champion modern Data Center automation by developing and scaling Services-as-Code / NetDevOps pipelines using Terraform (Cisco ACI Provider), Ansible, Python, GitOps, and Nexus Dashboard APIs to achieve deterministic, automated fabric provisioning. Complex DC Simulations & Escalation Authority: Design and utilize advanced data center simulation environments; serve as the highest technical escalation authority for critical fabric outages, complex Multi-Site BGP EVPN routing anomalies, and fabric upgrade strategies. Influence Product Direction & Methodology: Synthesize field feedback, architectural insights, and emerging AI workload requirements (such as AI/ML high-performance fabrics, RoCEv2, and Ultra Ethernet), partnering with CX Product Management and Engineering to influence Cisco product roadmaps. Author Intellectual Capital & Develop Talent: Author global reference architectures, Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs), and ACI/VXLAN migration frameworks and mentor senior consulting engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education &
  
  Experience:
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with 8+ years of related experience; or Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience; or equivalent related practical work experience.
• Data Center Architecture & Consulting Leadership: 6+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale data center architectural consulting, design, migration, and delivery projects for Enterprise clients.
• Cisco ACI & Nexus Fabric Mastery: 6+ years of deep technical mastery in Cisco Data Center switching architectures, with demonstrated expertise in Cisco ACI (APIC, Leaf-Spine topology, Multi-Pod, Multi-Site Orchestrator / NDO, Contracts, EPGs, VRFs, Bridge Domains) and Cisco Nexus 9000/3000 switches running NX-OS.
• EVPN-VXLAN & Core DC Protocols: 6+ years of advanced expertise in Data Center Routing & Switching protocols, including BGP EVPN, VXLAN Distributed Anycast Gateway, Tenant Routed Multicast (TRM), Data Center Interconnect (DCI), OSPF, IS-IS, and Multi-Chassis EtherChannel / vPC.
• Expert-Level Certification: Cisco CCIE Data Center (or CCDE / CCIE Routing & Switching) certification or equivalent recognized expert-level credential.
• Preferred Qualifications Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Mastery: Advanced expertise in automating Cisco ACI and Nexus fabrics using Terraform, Ansible ACI modules, Python (ACI REST API, Cobra SDK), and CI/CD GitOps pipelines (GitLab/GitHub Actions).
• Nexus Dashboard & DC Assurance: Hands-on experience deploying Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI), and Telemetry analytics to deliver predictive fabric operations and proactive compliance.
• AI/ML Fabric Networking & Ultra Ethernet: Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency data center fabrics for AI/ML compute clusters, including RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), Priority Flow Control (PFC), and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN).
• Executive Advisory & Strategic Roadmaps: Proven track record advising C-level executives (CIO, CTO, CISO) on multi-year data center consolidation, hybrid-cloud connectivity, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Thought Leadership & Commu