Cisco ACI / Data Center Network Engineer
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Summary
Senior (8+ years) data center network engineer role in Doha, Qatar, centered on designing and operating Cisco ACI fabrics — Nexus 9K leaf-spine design, APIC policy, and L3Outs — plus F5 load balancing and Palo Alto/Fortinet/Check Point firewalls, with automation via Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience- 8+ years
Location -Qatar
Notice - 30 Days
Must Have-Load Balancing, Networking, Cisco ESA, Fortinet IPS, F5 ASM, DevOps, on-premise to Cloud migration, Cisco ACI
Detailed JD
- Required Network Engineer with 8+ years of Cisco Data Center Networking experience. Strong hands-on expertise in Cisco ACI including Nexus 9K hardware, leaf spine fabric design and sizing, ACI policy model and APIC operations.
- Solid L3 routing skills (BGP, OSPF) and data center security concepts. Experience with automation using REST APIs, Terraform, and Ansible.
- In-depth knowledge of ACI logical objects such as tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, EPGs, contracts, L3Out design and implementation, and service graphs with PBR.
- Hands-on experience with F5 Application Delivery Controllers (LTM, APM) and enterprise firewalls including Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Check Point. Strong automation and scripting skills using IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines with Git-based workflows.
- Proficient in Linux CLI, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK for proactive troubleshooting.