Job Description Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer

Position: Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Mumbai

Employment Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners / Short Notice Preferred

Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Cisco ACI implementation, operations, troubleshooting, and Micro-Segmentation. The ideal candidate should have strong networking fundamentals and practical experience managing complex ACI environments, particularly ESG-based Micro-Segmentation and policy enforcement.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage day-to-day Cisco ACI operations, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting across ACI, Routing, Switching, and L2/L3 networking environments.
- Configure and manage ACI Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains (BDs), EPGs, VLANs, Contracts, and policies.
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot ACI Micro-Segmentation policies.
- Work extensively with ESG-based segmentation, including:
- ESG creation and classification
- ESG/EPG association and policy configuration
- ESG-based contracts
- uSeg (Micro-Segmentation)
- Contract and filter configuration
- Policy enforcement and troubleshooting

- Troubleshoot connectivity and policy-related issues involving EPG, ESG, Contracts, VRFs, BDs, and endpoint classification.
- Analyze and resolve complex routing, switching, and ACI fabric-related issues.
- Work with application, security, network, and infrastructure teams to implement segmentation and connectivity requirements.
- Participate in incident management, problem management, and change activities related to the ACI environment.




- Perform root-cause analysis and provide technical recommendations for recurring ACI/network issues.
- Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills:

- Strong hands-on experience with Cisco ACI projects and operations.
- Excellent understanding of Cisco ACI architecture and fabric components.
- Strong L2/L3 networking fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with:
- EPG
- ESG
- Contracts & Filters
- uSeg / Micro-Segmentation
- VRF
- Bridge Domain
- Tenant
- VLAN
- ACI Policy Configuration

- Strong knowledge of Routing & Switching concepts and troubleshooting.
- Experience in troubleshooting ACI policy enforcement and endpoint connectivity issues.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues in an ACI environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Cisco ACI certification or relevant Cisco certifications will be an added advantage.
- Experience working in enterprise data center environments.
- Experience with large-scale Cisco ACI deployments and production operations.
- Exposure to integration of ACI with firewalls, load balancers, virtualization platforms, and other data center technologies.

Key Competencies

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work independently in a critical production workplace.
- Strong incident-resolution and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle critical infrastructure issues.

Notice Period: Immediate joiners or candidates available within a very short notice period will be strongly preferred.

📌 Hiring Cisco ACI/Engineer with Micro-Segmentation exp For Mumbai
🏢 Syndrome NewEdge
📍 Mumbai