Description
Join Cisco's Cloud and Data Center Engineering team, a collaborative group of engineers, architects, and operations specialists. As a Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure Operations, you will design, develop, and implement cloud-based and data centre network solutions, combining cutting-edge technologies to optimize architecture in line with Cisco's security standards and policies.
Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and maintain data centre network architectures, including switching, routing, and network segmentation across on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and security teams to develop detailed specifications for new cloud-based products, services, and applications, focusing on network security optimization, scalability, and performance.
- Plan and execute compute and storage migration activities for data center relocation or consolidation projects, including assessing environments, creating migration strategies, and mitigating risks.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, OpenStack), performing both live and cold VM migrations and decommissioning with minimal service disruption.
- Build and maintain enterprise storage systems (NAS/SAN), including volume/LUN creation, host mapping, multipathing, and data replication.
- Validate system performance and data integrity post-migration, conduct tuning and optimization, and ensure high availability and performance of systems.
- Write scripts to automate server operations, network configurations, and management, and maintain QA and production environments using automation tools.
- Build and maintain monitoring tools for network and infrastructure performance, analyze system trends, and proactively address blockers to meet deadlines.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (application, data centre ops, security) while following ITIL-based request, change, and incident management processes.
- Produce clear migration documentation and handover materials, sharing learnings and supporting problem resolution across teams.
- Apply agile methodologies to manage timelines and deliverables, and ensure compliance with security, change management, and operational standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 3 years of relevant experience in network engineering or data centre operations, OR Master's degree in a related field plus 1 year of relevant experience.
- Experience in the design, development, and maintenance of cloud-based solutions and network infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of data centre networking concepts, switching, and routing protocols.
- Working knowledge of virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, OpenStack) and migration activities.
- Familiarity with enterprise storage systems (NAS/SAN).
- Experience collaborating within cross-functional, agile teams.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and change management processes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced expertise in Cisco networking platforms, data centre switch architecture, and network design.
- Hands-on experience with data centre network design, implementation, and troubleshooting (switching, routing, VLANs, load balancing).
- Expert-level experience in deploying, administering, and operating virtualization platforms (VMware, OpenStack).
- Strong expertise in building, operating, and tuning Linux and Windows Server environments for high availability and performance.
- In-depth knowledge of enterprise storage systems (e.g., NetApp) and storage architectures (NAS, SAN), including volume/LUN management, host mapping, multipathing, and data replication.
- Proficiency in network automation and programmability (REST APIs, Ansible, Python).
- Hands-on experience in data centre operations, including hardware installation, rack management, cabling, power management, and network cabling infrastructure.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation for network, server, and infrastructure management.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools for network and infrastructure performance (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
- Knowledge of data centre security standards and network segmentation best practices.