# Senior Data Center Consulting Engineer for Americas Time Zone

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Customer Experience (CX) team at Cisco is seeking a Senior Data Center Consulting Engineer to provide expert-level technical guidance and delivery for high-profile global customers.

As a Data Center Senior Consulting Engineer, you will:

- Design and implement cutting-edge Cisco technologies for large and complex networks.

- Analyze, monitor, and optimize network performance while automating repeatable tasks.

- Apply innovative technology to solve real-world business problems and deliver scalable services.

- Develop software and tools to automate manual processes and support infrastructure platforms.

- Act as a strategic partner to customers, preventing network incidents and providing expert-level troubleshooting.

- Support global field teams and engineers, providing technical leadership and problem-resolution expertise.

- Conduct internal and external systems/product training and contribute to intellectual property development.

- Provide critical feedback to Engineering and Product organizations to influence future product roadmaps.

- Innovate within the service strategy to create new service capabilities and lead service delivery models.

Minimum qualifications include:

- Bachelor's degree (BS/BE/BTech) or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in field consulting or a similar role.

- Comprehensive knowledge of Data Center technologies (SDN, SAN, Compute) and Cisco Nexus platforms.

- Deep experience with L2/L3 protocols, VXLAN, and Nexus Dashboard.

- Advanced knowledge of ACI fabric lifecycle management and ACI Multi-Pod/Multi-Site architectures.

- Proficiency in NDFC and automation.

- Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

Preferred qualifications include:

- CCIE (Data Center/Routing & Switching) or CCNP certification.

- Experience or knowledge of virtualization, container technologies, AWS, or VMware VCP.

The role requires a swing shift to support customers across the Americas region.

## Skills

### Required
- Data Center technologies
- Cisco Nexus platforms
- L2/L3 protocols
- VXLAN
- Nexus Dashboard
- ACI fabric lifecycle management
- NDFC
- automation
- English communication

### Nice to have
- CCIE
- CCNP
- virtualization
- container technologies
- AWS
- VMware VCP

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