Network Specialist

1. Expert in Network Routing and Switching.

2. Expert knowledge and hands on experience on Cisco ACI Architecture and Implementation. (single site, multi-pod, multi-site).

3. Strong experience & knowledge of ACI components (Tenant, BD, VRF, APIC, L2out and L3out), Nexus DC technologies such as vPC, VXLAN.

4. Strong hands on exp on Cisco Switches Catalyst Series (4500, 6500 and 9K series) and Cisco Nexus series (3K,5K,7K and 9K / with ACI mode) and Cisco Routers (ISR, C8000 etc).

5. Experince in Apic controller and Cisco Catalyst center.

6. Strong working knowledge in switching and routing protocols : STP, VLAN, 802.1x, IPv6, LACP, Stacking, VRF, PBR, GRE, HSRP, secured VTI, OSPF, ISIS, BGP (iBGP, eBGP, MP-BGP), NAT, IPSec, ACL, Site-to-Site VPN.

8. Experience in configuration of Data Center Spine-and-Leaf Architecture.

9.Strong hands on experience with Cisco IOS images including Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, XR, and NX-OS.

1. Knowledge of various DC Architectures such as DC-DR, DC Active-Active .

2. Realtime experience of ACI Multipod, Multisite, and PBR

Strong configuration and troubleshooting skills with Nexus devices and ACI

3.Experience with integration of service appliances to Cisco ACI deployments to include Application Delivery Controllers and Firewalls.

4. Functional level knowledge of implementing ACI using infrastructure as code and automation tools (Rest API, Ansible).

5. Exposure and experience on Legacy to ACI Migration