Cisco SD-WAN L3 Engineer

Job Title: Cisco SD-WAN L3 Engineer

Experience: 612 Years

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for a highly skilled Cisco SD-WAN L3 Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela), enterprise WAN, routing, troubleshooting, and network security.

The ideal candidate should have at least 3+ years of hands-on Cisco SD-WAN deployment and operations experience and must hold an active/valid CCNP certification.

Mandatory Skills —

Candidates must have the following skills:

- CCNP Certification – Mandatory
- Cisco SD-WAN / Cisco Viptela – Mandatory
- Hands-on experience with vManage, vSmart, vBond, and WAN Edge
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on Cisco SD-WAN experience
- Strong L3 troubleshooting experience
- Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP
- Experience with OMP, BFD, TLOCs, Control Policies, and Data Policies
- Robust understanding of IPsec, VPN, WAN, and MPLS
- Experience in Cisco SD-WAN deployment, operations, and troubleshooting
- Experience handling critical incidents and major network escalations

Key Responsibilities
- Provide L3 support for Cisco SD-WAN and enterprise WAN environments.
- Design, implement, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN/Viptela solutions.
- Work extensively with vManage, vSmart, vBond, and WAN Edge routers.
- Troubleshoot overlay and underlay connectivity, control connections, OMP routing, IPsec tunnels, BFD sessions, and application-aware routing.
- Configure and troubleshoot BGP, OSPF, EIGRP,



static routing, NAT, QoS, ACLs, and security policies.
- Work with MPLS, Internet, and LTE transports.
- Manage SD-WAN templates, policies, software upgrades, certificate management, and onboarding/ZTP.
- Support migration from traditional WAN infrastructure to Cisco SD-WAN architecture.
- Handle critical incidents, perform RCA, and drive proactive performance optimization.
- Coordinate with OEM/TAC teams during major incidents and escalations.
- Create HLD, LLD, SOPs, implementation plans, and operational documentation.

Required Experience
- 6–12 years of overall networking experience.
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Cisco SD-WAN deployment and operations.
- Experience supporting large enterprise or multi-site WAN environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities.
- Experience in customer-facing environments and handling technical escalations.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills
- ENSDWI certification
- CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure
- Cisco ISR/ASR platform experience
- Python, REST APIs, or Ansible
- Cloud connectivity: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Cisco Umbrella, Secure Access, or SASE exposure
- Managed services or large enterprise networking experience.

Suggested Naukri Mandatory Keywords For tighter candidate filtering, use these as your must-have/mandatory skills: CCNP | Cisco SD-WAN | Viptela | vManage | vSmart | vBond | BGP | OSPF | OMP | BFD | IPsec | MPLS | L3 Troubleshooting

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