Senior Data Center Architect & Strategic Tech Leader

Cisco Systems, Inc; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader specializing in Data Center Architectures within CX. You will provide senior technical leadership, shape multi-year roadmaps, and guide large-scale data center transformations across regional and global scopes.

You will lead ACI and EVPN-VXLAN fabric architectures, implement IaC pipelines with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps, and mentor consulting engineers while influencing product direction and architectural standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/IS with 8+ years of related experience.
• 6+ years leading complex, large-scale data center architectural consulting projects for Enterprise clients.
• 6+ years of deep technical mastery in Cisco Data Center switching architectures, including Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 switches.
• 6+ years of advanced expertise in DC routing & switching protocols (BGP EVPN, VXLAN, TRM, DCI, OSPF, IS-IS, vPC).
• Cisco CCIE Data Center (or CCDE / CCIE Routing & Switching) certification or equivalent expert credential.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain-wide architectural leadership to senior customer executives for multi-site data center transformations.
• Lead the strategic planning and deployment of Cisco ACI/Nexus fabric architectures across projects.
• Develop automation pipelines (Terraform/Ansible/Python) and GitOps for deterministic fabric provisioning.
• Design advanced data center simulations and act as escalation authority for outages and upgrade strategies.
• Influence product direction and roadmaps based on field feedback and AI workload requirements.
• Author reference architectures and mentor senior consulting engineers.

Skills

Data Center Architecture

Consulting Leadership

Multi-Site Fabric

Networking Protocols

Executive Advising

Architectural Roadmaps

Thought Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/IS

Master's degree (optional)

Equivalent practical work experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitOps

NDFC

Nexus Dashboard

NX-OS

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader specializing in Data Center Architectures within CX. You will provide senior technical leadership, shape multi-year roadmaps, and guide large-scale data center transformations across regional and global scopes.

You will lead ACI and EVPN-VXLAN fabric architectures, implement IaC pipelines with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps, and mentor consulting engineers while influencing product direction and architectural standards.