Network Architect

Project Scope & Deliverables:

- Build and maintain ACI Fabric network in new DC Co-Location Facility

- Work in conjunction with Compute & Storage team to turn up their devices into the ACI Fabric

- Understand and deliver application migration workloads from sources into the co-location DC facilities ACI fabric network.

- Through distributed cases, support the maintenance and solution delivery of the ACI Fabric network

- Understand and implement WAN technologies to implement and maintain the ACI Fabric network to the rest of the internal network and beyond

- Maintain Cisco FTD FW technology devices and routing for DMZ and Internal application

- Configure and maintain A10 Load Balancing configurations for applications

- Work within team structure proactively providing timely task progress update communications and execution of work

Prerequisites:

Thorough knowledge of Cisco ACI Fabric network

Whatever knowledge to deploy port turn ups configuring ACI application profiles, networking policy and access policy for new host connectivity

NXOS/IOS knowledge for OOB + Cisco tools like NDFC

Application migration experience

LB experience

DC Skill Sets

ACI fabric network configuration knowledge - Understanding of ACI components: APICSs spines, leaves, faults, GUI, CLI, fabric discovery, etc.

NXOS and IOS configuration experience

NDFC platform experience is a plus

Basic understanding of Storage NAS/SAN to turn up network access in ACI

Basic understanding of Compute ESXi/UCS to turn up network access in ACI

FTD FW configuration preferred

Comprehensive troubleshooting skills

ACI Fabric Network Infra build

Configure and build ACI Fabric infrastructure - configuration and troubleshooting knowledge of ACI features and Technologies: access policies, VPC, EPGs, BDs, L3outs, multi-pod, routing/switching, networking protocols (VXLAN, BGP, STP, OSPF)

Expand access leafs builds to support Compute and Storage network access

Build and configure NXOS and IOS Out of Band network to provide console and management access

Application workload Migrations

Migration of application from legacy L3 architecture to ACI Fabric network

Learn and understand applications and their migrations needs and process

Build migration solutions

Support the move from one datacenter to new co-location datacenter

Key Skills required:

Experience on managing/maintaining large/complex Cisco ACI fabric deployments

Deep working knowledge on Cisco ACI networking and Application micro security policy managements

Building, Operating, and managing large and complex ACI fabric with knowledge of VMWare, Nutanix and OpenStack integrations

Knowledge on different ACI fabric deployment models, Standalone , Stretched , Multi-POD and Multi-Site fabrics,

Understanding of Overlay and Underlay network technologies used in Data Center networks

Knowledge of Hypervisor network components (SVS, DVS, OVS, AHV, etc) and its interactions with physical DC network infrastructure

Experience with Data Center network segmentations using Cisco FTD firewall technologies, application micro-segmentation exposures, multi-segment policy management

Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard (ND/NDFC) for building and troubleshooting Data Center Networks

Experience with VXLAN based networks deployment and troubleshooting

Experience with configuring/managing/maintaining MACSEC enabled network interconnects

Experience monitoring and troubleshooting QoS for RoCEv2

Experience with OSPF/BGP routing

Experience with L2/L3 Fabrics

Familiarity with Linux, VMWare, Nutanix, OpenStack networking

Experience with configure, manage/maintain Network Load balancing technologies like A10, Citrix

Deeper working experience with following Cisco products:

Cisco ACI/APIC (large deployments with IPN interconnects)

Cisco Nexus switches (different switch models, modular, fixed, entry level to high-end models, 10Gb to 800Gb support)

Cisco Nexus Dashboard clusters (ND/NDFC)

Cisco FirePower / ASA/ FTD / FMC (entry level to high-end FW devices)

Cisco Catalyst switches (IOS-XE, IOS-XR)

A10 Thunder ADC appliances (3rd party product)