Senior ACI Network Engineer
LOCATION: San Jose, CA, locals only no relocation
can take someone 1hr commutbale disctance form San Jose
LONG TERM
MOI: Video
Responsibilities
The Senior ACI Network Engineer will be responsible to design, implement, maintain, and support Clients growing network infrastructure. This position will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available network architectures that meet business objectives and SLAs. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Assist in building out a new ACI network fabric running on Sonic OS
- Design, configure, and deploy Cisco 8K Series Routers
- Research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of (ACI) engineering principles
- Provide Tier lll technical support for ACI technologies
- As a Senior ACI Network Engineer, you will automate and perform daily operational duties supporting the Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure
- Develop and maintain advanced functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts, and trends
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience
- 8+ years of experience
- Expertise configuring Nexus switches
- Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and automating ACI solutions
- Tier lll escalation support experience in a Data Center environment
- Experience working with Cisco 8K Series Routers - 8100, 8200, 8600, 8800
- Expert executing basic Network Routing Protocols like OSPF, BGP and working knowledge of IS-IS (Integrated Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System) for ACI routing
- Knowledge of VLAN or MACsec (Media Access Control security)
- Solid understanding of the Data Center industry, products, and protocols
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills
- Effective organizational, planning and time management skills
Nice To Have
- CCNP or CCIE Certification
- Experience with SONiC OS or other open-source network operating systems
- Working knowledge of SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface)
- SONiC and SAI: SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) defines generic, object-based CRUD APIs for switching silicon configuration and monitoring; Sonic is an open-source network operating system based on Linux; From a high-level perspective, SONiC architecture consists of a bunch of networking applications that run independently in dedicated Docker containers that use Redis as an information source that shares about configuration and the system's current state