Senior Data Center Architecture Leader | ACI & NX-OS Expert

Cisco Systems, Inc; Paris; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader to provide senior architectural leadership for data center transformations at regional and global scale. You will guide multi-site deployments, shaping roadmaps and ensuring resilient, agile DC infrastructures.

You will lead ACI & EVPN-VXLAN fabric architecture, drive IaC and GitOps automation, and mentor senior engineers while influencing Cisco product direction and delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data center architecture or consulting leadership.
• 6+ years leading large-scale DC projects for Enterprise clients.
• Deep mastery in Cisco ACI, Nexus fabric and related DC protocols.
• CCIE Data Center or CCDE/CCIE Routing & Switching certs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain-wide architectural leadership for multi-site DC transformations.
• Lead design and deployment of Cisco ACI and EVPN-VXLAN fabrics.
• Develop and scale automation pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, GitOps.
• Serve as escalation authority for fabric outages and network anomalies.
• Collaborate with CX Product Management to influence product roadmaps.
• Mentor senior consulting engineers and author reference architectures.

Skills

Data Center Architecture

Consulting Leadership

Cisco ACI

Nexus Fabric

EVPN-VXLAN

IaC

GitOps

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/IS

Master's degree in related field

Tools

NDO (Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator)

Nexus 9000/3000 series switches

Cisco APIC

GitLab/GitHub Actions

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Consulting Engineering Technical Leader to provide senior architectural leadership for data center transformations at regional and global scale. You will guide multi-site deployments, shaping roadmaps and ensuring resilient, agile DC infrastructures.

You will lead ACI & EVPN-VXLAN fabric architecture, drive IaC and GitOps automation, and mentor senior engineers while influencing Cisco product direction and delivery methodologies.