Who You Are

• Plan, design and implement integrated networking and security solutions for customers

• Actively delivering in the latest industry SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) technology deployments

       Experience with C-Level/Director level customers in IT/Business to craft their Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategies

• Discovery of Customer requirements around Networking, Security, Automation and gather information around Customers use cases 

• Plans and executes highly sophisticated Network Transformation and Network Migration activity

       Act as Trusted Advisor representing Cisco within the customers environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.

• Provide recommendations for Networking & Security Strategy/Framework and Roadmap to meet Customer requirements

• Demonstrate thought leadership in solving customer problems and achieving their business outcomes

• You maintain effective working relationships with assigned customers and project managers

• You effectively work independently and as part of a team to implement customer solutions 

• Articulate technical characteristics of services, technology areas and guide development teams to engineer and add capabilities to existing features and tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• Typically requires BS, CS, or University degree equivalent and 10+ years demonstrated ability in network engineering/CCIE or relevant 10 years experience

• Expertise with Cisco network controller (SD-WAN - Viptela or Meraki)

• Experience in network security including Firewall, Security Risk Management, Security encryption, Identity and Access Management. 

• Experience with virtualization and containerization platforms like KVM, OpenStack, Docker

• Cloud certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent)

• Proficient in programming Python, REST API and adhere to practice methodologies

Desired Skills

The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and expert knowledge of Cisco's Enterprise products and solutions. Candidate must be results and team oriented and must possess strong interpersonal and presentation skills. The following skillsets are thus desired of this candidate:

• 6-10 years within Professional Service role(s)

• 5+ years leading large scale Enterprise Network Design and Implementation Engagements

• Expert knowledge in Routing and Switching technologies, such as MPLS, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, LISP and VRF

• Experience with consulting level conversations for several of the following:

  • Zero Trust (ISE, Radius, Tacacs, NAC, guest, posture, BYOD, profiling, pxGrid and Trustsec, Cisco Duo Multi Factor Authentication, Device Trust, SASE)

  • Cloud & Network (Firepower, IDS/IPS, Anyconnect, Umbrella/SIG)

• Experience with Linux, OpenStack, VMware, Containers, and Kubernetes

• Infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer or similar 

• Outstanding Consulting skills. Ability to influence customer decisions and outcomes. Ability to gain customer trust quickly, and confidently articulate Ciscos Enterprise Networking SD strategies and architectures.

• Demonstrated leadership of large complex projects in Enterprise WAN and Campus Networking environments

• Knowledge of Network Segmentation, and TrustSec

• Experience with server virtualization