Network Engineer/architect (CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure)

Title: Network Engineer/architect (CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure)

Location: Dallas, TX 75235 4-5 days onsite need local within commute

Type: 6 month contract to hire

Notes

• CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure (Required)
• We're looking for engineers with hands-on operational experience in large Cisco enterprise environments who can contribute with minimal ramp-up time.
• We're looking for candidates who can demonstrate real-world operational ownership-not just exposure.
• Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to traditional routing and switching, data center deployments, or configuration work-without hands-on experience supporting SDA, Catalyst Center, ISE, and enterprise wireless-typically are not the right fit for this role.
• What's most important is experience supporting large, always-on Cisco enterprise environments where uptime, operational excellence, and troubleshooting are critical.
• They want candidates that have personally administered and troubleshot these technologies versus simply being exposed to them as part of a larger team.
• We're looking for engineers who can explain what they owned, how they solved problems, and what role they played in production support.
• The manager directly asked for:
  • **Cisco CCIE Certified need to be specialized in this
  • Cisco Software-Defined Access (SDA)
  • large Cisco enterprise environment experience
  • Firewall experience
  • Catalyst Center
  • ISE - Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
  • Cisco Nexus data center technologies, including VXLAN/EVPN and Nexus Dashboard (NDFC)
  • Cisco Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controllers
• Pluses:
  • Candidates with experience supporting environments such as: Large Healthcare Systems, Fortune 500 Enterprises, Financial Services Organizations, Universities / Higher Education, Government Agencies, and/or Large Manufacturing Organizations