Cisco Data Centre Migration

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Fynbosys Inc, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! Job title: Cisco Data Centre Migration Job Location: San Jose/Santa Clara Job Type: Contract Must Have: CCIE DC certified (Theory and Practical s) + ACI skills. Project Scope & Deliverables: • Build and maintain ACI Fabric network In Cisco s new DC Co-Location Facility • Work in conjunction with Compute & Storage team to turn up their devices into the ACI Fabric • Understand and deliver application migration workloads from sources into the co-location DC facilities ACI fabric network. • Through distributed cases, support the maintenance and solution delivery of the ACI Fabric network • Understand and implement WAN technologies to implement and maintain the ACI Fabric network to the rest of the Cisco internal network and beyond • Maintain Cisco FTD FW technology devices and routing for DMZ and Internal application • Configure and maintain A10 Load Balancing configurations for applications • Work within team structure proactively providing timely task progress update communications and execution of work Prerequisites: • Thorough knowledge of Cisco ACI Fabric network • Whatever knowledge to deploy port turn ups configuring ACI application profiles, networking policy and access policy for new host connectivity • NXOS/IOS knowledge for OOB + Cisco tools like NDFC • Application migration experience • LB experience DC Skill Sets • ACI fabric network configuration knowledge - Understanding of ACI components: APICSs spines, leaves, faults, GUI, CLI, fabric discovery, etc. • NXOS and IOS configuration experience • NDFC platform experience is a plus • Basic understanding of Storage NAS/SAN to turn up network access in ACI • Basic understanding of Compute Esi/UCS to turn up network access in ACI • FTD FW configuration preferred • Comprehensive troubleshooting skills ACI Fabric Network Infra build • Configure and build ACI Fabric infrastructure - configuration and troubleshooting knowledge of ACI features and Technologies: access policies, VPC, EPGs, BDs, L3outs, multi-pod, routing/switching, networking protocols (VXLAN, BGP, STP, OSPF) • Expand access leaf s builds to support Compute and Storage network access • Build and configure NXOS and IOS Out of Band network to provide console and management access Application workload Migrations • Migration of application from legacy L3 architecture to ACI Fabric network • Learn and understand applications and their migrations needs and process • Build migration solutions • Support the move from one datacenter to new co-location datacenter Key Skills required: • Experience on managing/maintaining large/complex Cisco ACI fabric deployments • Deep working knowledge on Cisco ACI networking and Application micro security policy managements • Building, Operating, and managing large and complex ACI fabric with knowledge of VMWare, Nutanix and OpenStack integrations • Knowledge on different ACI fabric deployment models, Standalone , Stretched , Multi-POD and Multi-Site fabrics, • Understanding of Overlay and Underlay network technologies used in Data Center networks • Knowledge of Hypervisor network components (SVS, DVS, OVS, AHV, etc.) and it s interactions with physical DC network infrastructure • Experience with Data Center network segmentations using Cisco FTD firewall technologies, application micro-segmentation exposures, multi-segment policy management • Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard (ND/NDFC) for building and troubleshooting Data Center Networks • Experience with VXLAN based networks deployment and troubleshooting • Experience with configuring/managing/maintaining MACSEC enabled network interconnects • Experience monitoring and troubleshooting QoS for RoCEv2 • Experience with OSPF/BGP routing • Experience with L2/L3 Fabrics • Familiarity with Linux, VMWare, Nutanix, OpenStack networking • Experience with configure, manage/maintain Network Load balancing technologies like A10, Citrix Deeper working experience with following Cisco products: • Cisco ACI/APIC (large deployments with IPN interconnects) • Cisco Nexus switches (different switch models, modular, fixed, entry level to high-end models, 10Gb to 800Gb support) • Cisco Nexus Dashboard clusters (ND/NDFC) • Cisco Firepower / ASA/ FTD / FMC (entry level to high-end FW devices) • Cisco Catalyst switches (IOS-XE, IOS-XR) • A10 Thunder ADC appliances (3rd party product)