Lead Cisco ACI Data Center Network Engineer

Garmin Ltd.

Olathe (KS)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Garmin Ltd. seeks a Lead Data Center Network Engineer (Cisco ACI) for Garmin's headquarters in Olathe, Kansas.

You will be the technical leader for global data center networking, focusing on Cisco ACI environments, lifecycle management, and modernization initiatives to ensure highly available, scalable network services. You will guide large-scale deployments, capacity planning, and incident response, collaborating with cross-functional teams and serving as a senior escalation resource for

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, MIS, or related field AND a minimum of 9 years relevant experience.
Demonstrated strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and initiatives.
Extensive hands-on experience with Cisco ACI in enterprise or large-scale data center environments.
Experience performing Cisco ACI fabric upgrades, software upgrades, hardware replacements, lifecycle management activities, and fabric expansion projects.
Strong understanding of modern data center networking architectures including leaf-spine designs, VXLAN, EVPN, and SDN concepts.
Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus platforms and NX-OS.
Advanced knowledge of routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, ECMP, HSRP, VLANs, and L2/L3 principles.
Experience planning and executing network hardware refreshes, platform migrations, and EOL/EOS remediation.
Proven experience troubleshooting complex network issues in production environments.
Experience leading incident response and coordinating activities across multiple teams.
Strong understanding of network resiliency, HA, disaster recovery, and BC principles.
Experience with network monitoring, telemetry, performance analysis, and troubleshooting tools.
Experience in 24x7 on-call rotation for enterprise/data center networks.
Ability to work occasional after-hours maintenance windows.

Responsibilities

Provides technical leadership for the data center networking roadmap and long-term infrastructure strategy.
Serves as SME for Cisco ACI and modern data center networking technologies.
Leads design, implementation, maintenance, and support of enterprise data center network infrastructure.
Plans and executes Cisco ACI lifecycle management activities including fabric upgrades, code upgrades, hardware replacements, fabric expansions, and migrations.
Develops reliable solutions to complex technical challenges requiring creativity and advanced troubleshooting.
Leads major incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for critical network issues.
Serves as senior escalation resource for production issues affecting critical services.
Establishes and maintains network architecture standards, procedures, and engineering best practices.
Collaborates with server, storage, security, cloud, and app teams for integrated infrastructure solutions.
Leads capacity planning, growth forecasting, and technology refresh initiatives.
Evaluates and implements new technologies to improve reliability, scalability, automation, and efficiency.
Develops and maintains technical documentation, runbooks, and design standards.
Provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
Participates in global on-call rotation and responds to incidents as required.
Supports planned maintenance, changes, upgrades, and migrations during approved windows.
Drives continuous improvement and modernization across the network environment.