Role & responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and manage Cisco ACI fabric (Spine-Leaf, APIC, Nexus 9000 series switches).
- Configure Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains, EPGs, Application Profiles, and Contracts within ACI.
- Plan and execute migration from legacy data center networks to ACI fabric.
- Implement Multi-Pod, Multi-Site, and Remote Leaf architectures for distributed data centers.
- Integrate ACI with virtualization (VMware) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/OpenStack).
- Configure L2/L3 connectivity, VXLAN, OSPF, BGP, and route-leaking within the fabric.
- Integrate firewalls/load balancers (F5, Palo Alto, Check Point) using service graphs/PBR.
- Monitor fabric health and troubleshoot connectivity, policy, and endpoint issues.
- Manage firmware upgrades and lifecycle management of APIC/Nexus switches.
- Maintain network documentation, architecture diagrams, and SOPs.




- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide L3-level escalation support.

Preferred candidate profile

- 11-17 years in data center networking with strong hands-on expertise in Cisco ACI.
- Strong experience with Cisco Nexus 9000 switches (NX-OS and ACI fabric mode).
- In-depth knowledge of ACI components: APIC, Spine/Leaf, Tenants, VRFs, EPGs, Contracts.
- Hands-on experience with Multi-Pod/Multi-Site ACI deployments.
- Solid understanding of VXLAN, BGP EVPN, OSPF, and routing/switching fundamentals.
- Experience integrating ACI with VMware and orchestration tools.
- Experience with service graph/PBR integration for firewalls and load balancers.
- Solid troubleshooting skills using APIC GUI/CLI and Nexus Dashboard.
- Experience in data center migration or ACI version upgrade projects.

📌 ACI Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Syndrome NewEdge
📍 Mumbai