Senior Cisco ACI Data Center Network Lead

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin is seeking a Lead Data Center Network Engineer (Cisco ACI) at our Olathe, Kansas headquarters. You will drive the global data center networking roadmap, lead large-scale deployments, and mentor engineers while coordinating with cross-functional teams for highly available, secure services.

You will serve as the subject matter expert for Cisco ACI, manage lifecycle and capacity planning, and participate in a global on-call rotation to respond to incidents and outages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• 9+ years of relevant experience preferred.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Extensive hands-on Cisco ACI experience in large-scale data centers.
• Experience with fabric upgrades, lifecycle management, and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Cisco ACI environments and data center networking roadmap.
• Lead design, implementation, and support of enterprise data center network infrastructure.
• Plan and execute Cisco ACI lifecycle activities including fabric upgrades and migrations.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

Skills

Cisco ACI

Data center networking

Leaf-spine architecture

VXLAN/EVPN

NX-OS

Routing & Switching

On-call rotation

Network monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Network Insights

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Job description

Garmin is seeking a Lead Data Center Network Engineer (Cisco ACI) at our Olathe, Kansas headquarters. You will drive the global data center networking roadmap, lead large-scale deployments, and mentor engineers while coordinating with cross-functional teams for highly available, secure services.

You will serve as the subject matter expert for Cisco ACI, manage lifecycle and capacity planning, and participate in a global on-call rotation to respond to incidents and outages.