Senior Data Center Architect: ACI, EVPN & IaC Leader

Cisco Systems, Inc; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader focused on Data Center Architectures within CX.

You will provide senior technical leadership, strategic vision, and innovation across mission-critical data center infrastructures at regional and global scale. You will guide cloud-scale data center transformations, shape multi-year roadmaps, and ensure investments deliver resilience and agility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or related field with 8+ years of related experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale data center architectural consulting, design, migration, and delivery projects for Enterprise clients.
• 6+ years of deep technical mastery in Cisco Data Center switching architectures and Nexus 9000/3000 switches.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain-wide architectural leadership for multi-site Data Center transformations.
• Lead the strategic planning, design, and deployment of Cisco ACI and EVPN-VXLAN fabrics.
• Champion modern Data Center automation via Terraform, Ansible, Python, and GitOps pipelines.
• Design advanced data center simulations and act as escalation authority for fabric outages and migrations.
• Influence Cisco product roadmaps with field feedback and AI workload requirements.
• Author reference architectures and Cisco Validated Designs and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Architectural leadership

Data Center expertise

IaC & GitOps

AI/ML fabric knowledge

Mentor and develop talent

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/IS

Master’s degree or equivalent

Extensive practical data center experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitOps pipelines

Nexus Dashboard

APIC / NX-OS

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader focused on Data Center Architectures within CX.

You will provide senior technical leadership, strategic vision, and innovation across mission-critical data center infrastructures at regional and global scale. You will guide cloud-scale data center transformations, shape multi-year roadmaps, and ensure investments deliver resilience and agility.