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Lead Enterprise & Data Center Network Architect SD-Access / ACI (CCIE certified)
Location: Bahrain, onsite, Will sponser Visa
Experience: 10+ Years
Must travel onsite within a month
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise & Data Center Network Architect with hands-on expertise in Cisco SD-Access and Cisco ACI / VXLAN technologies. The role will support the design, implementation, troubleshooting, and brownfield migration of a large enterprise campus and dual-data-center network.
Must-Have Skills
8 10+ years of enterprise networking experience.
3+ years hands-on experience with Cisco SD-Access and data-center fabric technologies.
Strong production experience with Cisco SD-Access and Catalyst Center (DNA Center).
Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus VXLAN BGP EVPN and/or Cisco ACI.
Strong understanding of VXLAN encapsulation and BGP EVPN control plane.
Experience with Cisco ISE, TrustSec and SGT.
Strong enterprise campus experience with Catalyst 9000 and StackWise/SVL.
Data-center experience with vPC, underlay/overlay routing and inter-DC connectivity.
Experience with complex brownfield migrations.
Experience integrating NAC and firewalls, including Forescout/ClearPass and Palo Alto/Fortinet.
Strong troubleshooting and production cutover experience.
Preferred / Nice to Have
CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or CCIE Data Center, or equivalent production experience.
Experience with 100G/400G data-center environments.
pxGrid experience.
Experience with ACI spine/leaf architecture, VRFs, EPGs and Layer-2 extension.
Experience leading UAT and production migration/cutover activities.
Experience creating HLD/LLD, as-built documentation and Day-2 operational runbooks.
Cisco TAC escalation experience.
Key Responsibilities
Lead architecture review and migration planning for SD-Access campus and dual-data-center environments.
Deploy and validate SD-Access underlay/overlay, border, control-plane and edge components.
Design and implement VXLAN BGP EVPN / ACI fabrics.
Integrate Cisco ISE, TrustSec/SGT and pxGrid with SD-Access.
Integrate campus/data-center fabrics with NAC and enterprise firewalls.
Support UAT, production cutovers and complex troubleshooting.
Create as-built documentation and operational runbooks.
Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer to engineering teams.
Work arrangement
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