Network Systems Engineering Technical Leader

123 Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking network professionals to design, deploy, and maintain robust hybrid lab environments using Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) and physical hardware. You will work across campus, branch, WAN, and data center topologies to emulate enterprise networks and enable software development and validation.

Join a team that collaborates with software, infrastructure, and QA to optimize lab capacity, performance, and automation, ensuring high availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) or similar emulation platforms.
• Professional experience in network engineering, lab management, or infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain robust hybrid lab environments using physical hardware and virtual topologies.
• Integrate, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco's SD-WAN and data center components.
• Collaborate with software, infrastructure, and QA teams to support test scenarios and CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimise lab capacity, performance, and resource allocation for high availability and low latency.

Skills

Network engineering

Lab management

Infrastructure operations

CML (Cisco Modeling Labs)

BGP

OSPF

Cisco SD-WAN

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Networking, or related field

Tools

Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)

Job description

Meet the Team

Join a team of network engineering, infrastructure, software development, and quality assurance professionals responsible for building and maintaining advanced network lab environments. The team leverages Cisco Modeling Labs (CML), physical network hardware, and virtualized network platforms to emulate complex enterprise campus, branch, WAN, and Data Center architectures. Together, we enable software development, network automation, testing, and validation across enterprise and Data Center environments.

Your Impact

Design, deploy, and maintain robust hybrid network lab environments combining physical hardware and virtual network topologies using Cisco Modeling Labs (CML). Integrate, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco's enterprise and Data Center portfolio, including Cisco SD-WAN (vManage/Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, vBond, vSmart, cEdge/vEdge routers), Catalyst campus and branch switches and routers, Nexus switches, MDS storage switches, and firewalls, alongside third-party devices and virtual network functions. Architect and simulate multi-tenant WAN, campus, branch, and Data Center fabrics incorporating transport-independent overlay networks, secure segmentation, application-aware routing, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics, and Data Center bridging and switching architectures. Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and QA teams to support reproducible test scenarios, CI/CD pipelines, and network automation use cases. Optimise lab capacity, performance, resource allocation, and virtualisation nodes to ensure high availability, low-latency emulation, and efficient utilisation of testing topologies. Troubleshoot complex campus and branch wired and wireless networks, SD-WAN overlay/underlay connectivity, BGP and OSPF routing, Data Center switching fabrics, and virtualisation issues, ensuring timely resolution and comprehensive documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Networking, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional experience in network engineering, lab management, or infrastructure operations. (The required number of years should be specified.)
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) or similar network emulation and simulation platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cisco enterprise networking and Data Center technologies, including Catalyst switches and routers, Nexus switches, MDS storage switches, firewalls, and Cisco SD-WAN components.
• Hands-on experience with routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF, SD-WAN overlay/underlay connectivity, network segmentation, VXLAN/EVPN, and Data Center bridging and switching.
• Experience designing and managing hybrid network labs comprising physical devices, virtual network topologies, and third-party network platforms.
• Familiarity with network automation, CI/CD pipelines, software testing, and validation workflows.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.

Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers - it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life's best work.