Lead Enterprise & Data Center Network Architect SD-Access / ACI (CCIE certified)

Location: Bahrain, onsite, Will sponser Visa
Experience: 10+ Years
Must travel onsite within a month

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise & Data Center Network Architect with hands-on expertise in Cisco SD-Access and Cisco ACI / VXLAN technologies. The role will support the design, implementation, troubleshooting, and brownfield migration of a large enterprise campus and dual-data-center network.

Must-Have Skills

- 8 10+ years of enterprise networking experience.
- 3+ years hands-on experience with Cisco SD-Access and data-center fabric technologies.
- Robust production experience with Cisco SD-Access and Catalyst Center (DNA Center).
- Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus VXLAN BGP EVPN and/or Cisco ACI.
- Strong understanding of VXLAN encapsulation and BGP EVPN control plane.
- Experience with Cisco ISE, Trust Sec and SGT.
- Strong enterprise campus experience with Catalyst 9000 and Stack Wise/SVL.
- Data-center experience with vPC, underlay/overlay routing and inter-DC connectivity.
- Experience with complex brownfield migrations.
- Experience integrating NAC and firewalls, including Forescout/Clear Pass and Palo Alto/Fortinet.




- Strong troubleshooting and production cutover experience.

Preferred / Nice to Have
- CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or CCIE Data Center, or equivalent production experience.
- Experience with 100G/400G data-center environments.
- px Grid experience.
- Experience with ACI spine/leaf architecture, VRFs, EPGs and Layer-2 extension.
- Experience leading UAT and production migration/cutover activities.
- Experience creating HLD/LLD, as-built documentation and Day-2 operational runbooks.
- Cisco TAC escalation experience.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture review and migration planning for SD-Access campus and dual-data-center environments.
- Deploy and validate SD-Access underlay/overlay, border, control-plane and edge components.
- Design and implement VXLAN BGP EVPN / ACI fabrics.
- Integrate Cisco ISE, Trust Sec/SGT and px Grid with SD-Access.
- Integrate campus/data-center fabrics with NAC and enterprise firewalls.
- Support UAT, production cutovers and complex troubleshooting.
- Create as-built documentation and operational runbooks.
- Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer to engineering teams.

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