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Priority will be given to candidates who reside within a commutable distance to our office and can participate in our Hybrid work model. Qualified remote candidates will also be considered, but with secondary preference.
Meet the Team
In Cisco’s Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure and Networking Engineering, we create the future of the internet and define how millions of people and billions of devices connect every day. We are building the infrastructure for the Internet of tomorrow.
You will work with vibrant technical community and interact with some of the most respected experts in Internet & Cloud Infrastructure and Networking as you provide expert engineering support for customer deployments. As an engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to not only to support some of the world's largest Web scaler and Service Provider networks, but also work with the Product management, Sales and Marketing teams on pro-active customer engagements covering current technologies. You will actively engage engineering architects and technical subject matter experts in product development contributing to product quality, debuggability and customer technical requirements.
Your Impact
As an Experienced Network Escalation engineer, within Cisco’s Internet & Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, you’ll play a critical role in enabling customers to deploy our products and solutions quickly, securely, and confidently. You are an accomplished technical engineer with experience in building resilient, scalable, and secure platforms using opensource and commercial software. You are also passionate, care about customer success, and inspire others to feel the same.
Actively engage, take ownership and drive to resolution critical customer escalations in Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric portfolioProvide expert support and be a critical point of contact for technical and operational issues that require engineering expertise to resolveApply expert technical knowledge and analytical skills to solve product and network problems of high complexity.Act as a technical expert in data center, switching and routing technologies and provide expert engineering support on a world-wide basisActively engage with Cisco’s customer facing teams and travel to customer sites if neededWork on problems of diverse scope software/hardware/configuration/designProvide proper root cause analysis for customers, CX, and customer facing organizationsEffectively utilize lab setups to recreate and solve complex problems in systems that can be due to configuration, software or hardware defectsBe an active technical and resolution-oriented liaison between engineering and both Cisco customer facing teams/customerIdentify systematic product problems and drive plans with respective teams for long term solutions providing better customer experience and product/solution stability
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelors in STEM with 8 or more years’ experience working in networking engineeringDemonstrated background in data center networking, routing, switching (layer 2 forwarding, spanning-tree), router/switch architecture and Network Infrastructure and Management Technologies such as QOS, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, ACI, LACP, MC-LAGExperience with virtualization (ESXi and others), containers, Kubernetes, cloud networking, AWS infrastructureExperience with Data Center automation tools like Terraform and AnsibleExperience with Linux and open-source technologiesDemonstrated experience in C, C++, or PythonDemonstrated experience troubleshooting networking issues in live customer environments to effectively diagnose and resolve problems
Preferred Qualifications:Familiarity with internal Cisco organization and eco-system (BU, AS, TS, PLM, Operations)Experience with SONiC NOSCCIE Data Center & Service ProviderMaster’s Degree in STEMPractical knowledge and experience with Artificial Intelligence concepts and applications
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