📍 Location: Doha, Qatar · Full-Time

We are looking for a CCIE Certified Network Engineer to design, deploy, and support Cisco data centre infrastructure, including Cisco ACI fabric, Nexus switching, and UCS compute, in enterprise data centre environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and implement Cisco ACI fabric in enterprise data center environments.

• Install, configure, and manage Cisco Nexus switches (9000, 7000, and 5000 series).

• Deploy and administer Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series servers, including UCS Manager.

• Configure and manage Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects, Service Profiles, VLANs, VSANs, and firmware upgrades.

• Implement Leaf-Spine architecture using Cisco ACI.

• Configure ACI policies including Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains, EPGs, Contracts, L3Out, and Application Profiles.

• Perform migration from traditional network architecture to Cisco ACI.

• Integrate Cisco ACI with VMware vCenter, Hyper-V, or other virtualization platforms.

• Configure VXLAN EVPN, vPC, OSPF, BGP, and static routing within the data center.

• Perform software upgrades, patching, health checks, and lifecycle management.

• Troubleshoot complex issues related to Cisco ACI, Nexus, UCS, and data center networking.

• Work with security, server, virtualization, and storage teams during implementation and migration activities.

• Prepare implementation documentation, Low-Level Design (LLD), High-Level Design (HLD), Method of Procedure (MOP), and As-Built documentation.

• Provide technical support during maintenance windows and major implementation activities.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience implementing Cisco ACI in production environments.

• Strong knowledge of Cisco Nexus switches (Nexus 9000, 7000, and 5000).

• Experience with Cisco UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnects, and UCS server deployment.

• Knowledge of Cisco data center architecture and Leaf-Spine design.

• Experience with VXLAN, EVPN, vPC, VLAN, STP, HSRP, OSPF, and BGP.

• Experience integrating Cisco ACI with VMware vCenter and virtualization environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

• Experience with firmware upgrades and migration activities.

• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Python, or Terraform is an advantage.

• Knowledge of storage networking (SAN), Fibre Channel, and VSAN is desirable.

Required Experience

• 5–10+ years of experience in Cisco data center networking.

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Cisco ACI implementation experience.

• Proven experience deploying Cisco UCS infrastructure.

• Experience working in enterprise or service provider data centers.

• Experience with data center migration and transformation projects.

Certifications

• Mandatory: Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center preferred, or CCIE Routing and Switching.

• Cisco Certified Specialist – ACI Implementation.

• VMware VCP preferred.