CCIE Data Center Engineer: ACI, Nexus & UCS Expert

Alftek International; Doha; On-site; QAR 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Alftek International is hiring a Cisco Data Center Engineer in Doha to design, deploy and manage Cisco ACI fabrics across enterprise data centers. You will install and manage Nexus 9000/7000/5000 series switches and UCS infrastructure, including UCS Manager, while implementing Leaf‐Spine environments and policy models.

You will drive migration from traditional networks to ACI and integrate with VMware vCenter/Hyper‑V, handling VXLAN/EVPN, vPC, OSPF/BGP, upgrades and lifecycle tasks.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of Cisco data center networking experience.
• Hands-on Cisco ACI implementation in production environments.
• Experience deploying Cisco UCS infrastructure in enterprise data centers.
• Familiarity with data center migration and transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure and implement Cisco ACI fabric in enterprise data centers.
• Install, configure and manage Cisco Nexus switches (9000/7000/5000).
• Deploy and administer Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series servers including UCS Manager.
• Configure and manage UCS Fabric Interconnects, Service Profiles, VLANs, VSANs and firmware upgrades.
• Implement Leaf-Spine architecture using Cisco ACI and ACI policies (Tenants, VRFs, EPGs, Contracts, L3Out).
• Migrate from traditional networks to Cisco ACI and integrate with VMware vCenter/Hyper‑V.
• Configure VXLAN, EVPN, vPC, OSPF, BGP and static routing in data centers.
• Perform software upgrades, health checks and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Cisco ACI, Nexus, UCS and data center networking.
• Collaborate with security, server, virtualization, and storage teams; prepare Low/High Level designs and MOPs.

Skills

Cisco ACI

Nexus switches

UCS Manager

Leaf-Spine

VXLAN EVPN

BGP/OSPF

VMware integration

Troubleshooting

Automation tools

VSAN

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Job description

Alftek International is hiring a Cisco Data Center Engineer in Doha to design, deploy and manage Cisco ACI fabrics across enterprise data centers. You will install and manage Nexus 9000/7000/5000 series switches and UCS infrastructure, including UCS Manager, while implementing Leaf‐Spine environments and policy models.

You will drive migration from traditional networks to ACI and integrate with VMware vCenter/Hyper‑V, handling VXLAN/EVPN, vPC, OSPF/BGP, upgrades and lifecycle tasks.