# Consulting Engineer

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

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## Description

Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) Professional Services Service Provider PDI (Plan, Design, Implement) team is a group of elite technical experts driving the architecture, deployment, and optimization of 5G Core, Telco Cloud, and edge computing infrastructures for Japan's leading telecommunications carriers.

As a Consulting Engineer, you will act as a technical lead responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation, and performance optimization of Kubernetes/KVM-based cloud-native infrastructures and high-speed data planes leveraging CNDP (Cloud Native Data Plane) for Japan's tier-1 Service Provider clients.

**Responsibilities:**

- Cloud-Native Architecture & Design: Lead the High-Level and Low-Level Design (HLD/LLD), parameter definition, and test plan creation for bare-metal / VM-based Kubernetes and KVM/OpenStack virtualization platforms in 5G Core and edge environments.

- Data Plane Acceleration & Performance Tuning: Apply high-speed packet processing technologies-including CNDP (Cloud Native Data Plane), DPDK, SR-IOV, and eBPF-to conduct benchmarking, kernel parameter tuning, and throughput optimization meeting stringent carrier-grade SLAs.

- Container Network Interface (CNI) Engineering: Architect, integrate, and troubleshoot advanced container networking environments utilizing Multus CNI, Calico, SR-IOV CNI, and high-performance routing protocols.

- PDI Technical Delivery & Cutover Ownership: Serve as the technical lead across the full PDI lifecycle, driving staging validation, on-site deployment, cutover runbook execution, and real-time risk mitigation during critical maintenance windows.

- Global Collaboration & Knowledge Scaling: Partner with global architecture teams (India CoE, US BU Engineering) to resolve complex product roadblocks, while translating project learnings into reusable templates and design collateral for the broader team.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in the design, deployment, and operation of container platforms (Kubernetes / Docker) or enterprise virtualization environments (KVM / OpenStack).

- Deep understanding of Linux OS internals (RHEL / Ubuntu), kernel parameter tuning, system administration, and container network stack troubleshooting.

- Practical knowledge or implementation experience with accelerated data-plane technologies (e.g., CNDP, DPDK, SR-IOV, eBPF, or fast packet processing).

- End-to-end PDI (Plan, Design, Implement) delivery capability, including authoring Detailed Design documents (LLD), execution runbooks, and test verification procedures.

- Native or business-level fluency in Japanese (client-facing advisory and technical documentation) with professional working proficiency in English (collaborating with global engineering teams).

**Benefits:** No specific benefits mentioned.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- KVM
- Linux
- CNDP
- DPDK
- SR-IOV
- eBPF
- Multus CNI
- Calico
- OpenStack
- Japanese
- English

### Nice to have
- 5G Core
- Telco Cloud
- edge computing
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
- CKAD
- RHCA
- RHCE
- Python
- Bash
- Ansible
- Terraform
- GitOps
- CI/CD delivery pipelines
- containerized deployment workflows
- Cisco compute/networking solutions

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