Job Opportunity For Technical Lead (CISCO ISE)

Role Summary:

• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) platform. • Responsible for designing, configuring, optimizing & maintaining Cisco ISE solutions to enforce identity-based network access control. • Lead the design and implementation of authentication, authorization & accounting (AAA) policies across wired, wireless, SDA & VPN infra. • Work closely with the network and security teams to ensure the ISE infra. is integrated, secured & aligned with enterprise access control policies. • Proactively monitor and optimize Cisco ISE to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability. • Ensure continuous compliance with security standards and best practices through identity policy enforcement. • Support troubleshooting of complex ISE-related issues and ensure timely resolution of access and policy problems. • Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for ISE operations.

  Responsibilities:

• Design and configure Cisco ISE policies including 802.1X, MAC authentication bypass (MAB), posture assessment, guest access & BYOD.

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  Integrate ISE with external identity providers (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP, PKI).

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  Implement and maintain TACACS+ / Radius policies for network device administration.

  • Conduct regular ISE patching, upgrades, backup management, and system health monitoring. • Manage profiling policies, network device groups, and authentication/authorization rules. • Coordinate with network teams to implement segmentation and dynamic VLAN assignment based on user/device identity. • Support troubleshooting of authentication failures, endpoint classification issues, and policy mismatches. • Analyze logs and reports from ISE, Syslog servers, or SIEM tools for incident detection and forensic analysis. • Participate in audit and compliance efforts related to access control enforcement. • Provide technical leadership in ISE project rollouts, migrations, and tuning efforts.