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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.