Technical Consulting Engineer Application Centric Infrastructure

at  Cisco Systems

The Business Entity
Cisco Managed Services (CMS) organization seeks a customer support engineer to join a team of extremely talented engineers supporting strategic accounts. This is a great opportunity for someone with perseverance and a compassionate view of the customer to hone their skills and advance their career providing value to customers while working with an industry leader in technology. The successful candidate will have a track record and desire to excel at both technical issue resolution and customer management.
The Team
As part of the Cisco CMS organization, you will be part of a dynamic, fast-paced and supportive team that will build you up as you provide technical support for some of Cisco’s biggest customers. you will be given the opportunity to work alongside many of Cisco’s Technical and Advanced Service organizations and will receive unique insight into the IT services industry all the way from pre-sales to day 2 support as an engineer focused on some of Cisco’s key customers.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Ensure 24/7 availability of the production environment and lead the daily operations of the production environment.
Ability to provide assistance in a support capacity with problem and incident resolution and assume major incident and problem ownership and accountability.
Able to work on-call and weekends on a as-needed basis.
Good analytical and resolution skills (the ability to think logically through a problem) and must have the initiative, perseverance, and commitment to see problems through to resolution.
Resolve incidents and problem tickets within SLA/SLO.
Recreate Customer Issues for technical resolution in the Operate Lab
A solid understanding of the ITIL framework and its application in a production environment.
Develop and maintain a knowledge of existing and new technologies and be able to tie the design and implementation of infrastructure to the managed components.
Working closely with the Engineering team to understand the product and project requirements.
Performs advanced level analysis, and diagnosis of complex issues.
Drive continuous improvement and process change suggestions to management.
Provide phone/email consultation to independently debug complex network problems.
Take ownership and accountability expectations in handling cases and customer situations.
Attributes of a Successful Candidate
We are looking for a talent with the following qualities and skills:
Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressured, multi-functional environment.
Demonstrate a high level of customer service and confidentiality
Attention to details and stellar social skills
Possess strong presentation and communication skills
Have strong time management skills
Required Skills
Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in network support.
knowledge of Incident/Change ticketing process.
Strong practical knowledge of configuring and resolving incidents of Routing and Switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, and STP
Strong practical knowledge of protocols including LACP, HSRP, QOS , Multicast, TCP/IP.
Solid understanding of concepts including VRF, VPC, EtherChannel.
Solid experience configuring Cisco catalyst switches, Cisco Nexus switches & Cisco routers.
Experience with Linux operating system.
Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Open to learning new technologies and protocols.
ITIL certifications a plus.
CCNP is highly desired, CCNA is a must.
Knowledge of Cisco Data Center Compute platforms like UCS Blade & Rack Servers, UCS Fabric Interconnect, and UCS Manager.
Understanding of Cloud computing technology.
Basic knowledge in using at least one compute virtualization platform: VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or KVM.
Experience with Python scripting language and Ansible is an advantage.
Experience working in a Dev-Ops environment is an advantage.
About Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it’s transforming our customers’ businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

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