Consulting Engineer

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

Job summary

Cisco Systems in Italy and Southern Europe seeks a Senior Consulting Engineer to lead design, deployment, and optimization of mission-critical data center networks, focusing on ACI, VXLAN, and Nexus fabrics. You will translate business goals into robust architectures and mentor regional engineers.

This hybrid role includes onsite engagements in Rome and Milan, driving automation and IaC with Python, Ansible, Terraform, and REST APIs, and guiding large transitions.

Qualifications

• Fluent in Italian and English for customer-facing engagements.
• Proven consulting experience in large enterprise data centers.
• Experience with ACI, VXLAN, and Nexus fabrics in multi-site environments.
• Strong design, migration, and day-2 operational capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture, design, staging, deployment, and Day-2 acceptance for large data center networks.
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco ACI (APIC) and VXLAN fabrics including multi-pod and multi-site deployments.
• Develop migration architectures and detailed MOPs to transition legacy environments to programmable ACI/VXLAN.
• Operate in a hybrid work model with onsite engagements in Rome and Milan as needed.
• Establish trusted advisory relationships with Chief Architects and IT leadership; translate business goals into robust architectures.
• Drive network automation and IaC using Python (ACI Cobra SDK), Ansible ACI modules, Terraform ACI Provider, and REST APIs.
• Architect L4–L7 service integration via ACI Service Graphs, L2Out, L3Out.
• Provide technical leadership, peer review, and mentorship across the regional delivery team.

Skills

Fluency in Italian

Professional English

Client-facing communication

Mentoring and coaching

Analytical thinking

Strong teamwork

BGP knowledge

Routing protocols

Education

CCIE Data Center or CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Telecommunications / Electronic Engineering

Tools

ACI

VXLAN fabrics

Nexus NX-OS

Python

Ansible ACI modules

Terraform ACI Provider

REST APIs

Nexus 9000/7000/5000

NDI / NDFC / DCNM

NAE

Job description

In this role you act as a senior technical authority in Cisco CX Professional Services across Italy and Southern Europe, leading design, deployment, and optimization of mission-critical data center networks. You work closely with client stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions using ACI, VXLAN, and Nexus fabrics, while driving automation and modern, AI-ready architectures. You balance hands‑on engineering with strategic consulting, mentoring regional engineers and guiding large-scale transitions. This is a high‑visibility, hybrid role offering impact across networks, security, and service delivery.

• Lead end-to-end architecture, design, staging, deployment, and Day-2 acceptance for large data center networks
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco ACI (APIC) and VXLAN fabrics including multi-pod and multi-site deployments
• Develop migration architectures and detailed MOPs to transition legacy environments to programmable ACI/VXLAN
• Operate in a hybrid work model with onsite engagements in Rome and Milan as needed
• Establish trusted advisory relationships with Chief Architects and IT leadership; translate business goals into robust architectures
• Drive network automation and IaC using Python (ACI Cobra SDK), Ansible ACI modules, Terraform ACI Provider, and REST APIs
• Architect L4–L7 service integration (firewalls, F5/Citrix load balancers) via ACI Service Graphs, L2Out, L3Out
• Provide technical leadership, peer review, and mentorship across the regional delivery team
• Secondary skills in DC will be considered a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electronic Engineering (or equivalent)
• 8+ years of hands‑on professional services or network consulting experience in enterprise/SP Data Center environments
• Active Cisco CCIE Data Center or CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure / Routing & Switching (or equivalent expert-level mastery)
• Deep knowledge of ACI fabric design, Spine-Leaf, APIC, VRFs, BDs, EPGs, Contracts, and Micro-segmentation; Multi-Pod and Multi-Site experiences
• Extensive Nexus 9000/7000/5000 NX-OS experience; VXLAN EVPN with BGP, IRB, DCI
• Experience with Nexus Dashboard, NDI, NDFC/DCNM, and Network Assurance Engine (NAE) for Day-2 operations
• Fluency in Italian and professional English for customer-facing engagements
• Strong routing & switching expertise (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Segment Routing, vPC, STP, QoS, multicast)
• Client-facing communication and presentation skills
• Analytical thinking and proven ability to convey complex SDN concepts to executives
• Mentoring and coaching of junior engineers; strong teamwork orientation
• VXLAN EVPN with BGP control plane, distributed anycast gateway
• Nexus switches (9000/7000/5000), NX-OS

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