Senior Network Engineer – Data Centre | 6-Month Limited Term
A 6-month limited-term contract in Sydney deploying, configuring and supporting data centre networking solutions for enterprise customers through Data#3's Professional Services team. Day-to-day work centres on Cisco ACI, Nexus/NX-OS, VXLAN EVPN and multi-site fabrics, spanning implementation, migration, testing and operational handover.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sydney NSW
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 11+ years
- Category
- Network engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Extensive hands-on experience implementing, supporting and troubleshooting enterprise and data centre network environments
- Deep technical capability across Cisco ACI, Nexus and NX-OS, including ACI Multi-Site, Multi-Pod or comparable multi-site architectures
- Strong understanding of VXLAN EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs and enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 networking
- Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard/NDO, together with working knowledge of Cisco UCS and data centre compute/network integration
- Experience integrating data centre networking with security and application delivery technologies such as F5, Fortinet, Check Point or similar platforms
- Strong customer-facing delivery capability, including technical documentation, formal change processes and working across engineering, architecture and project teams
Nice to have
- Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP Data Center, CCIE Data Center or equivalent
Full description
Senior Network Engineer – Data Centre | Sydney | 6-Month Limited Term
An opportunity has opened within our growing Professional Services team for an experienced Senior Network Engineer specialising in Data Centre Networking to join our Sydney team on a 6-month limited-term contract.
Working across enterprise customer environments, you'll deploy, configure and support modern data centre networking solutions, with a particular focus on Cisco ACI, Nexus and multi-site data centre environments.
You'll work alongside Solution Architects, Project Managers and technical specialists to deliver solutions through implementation, testing, migration and operational handover.
In this role you will:
- Deploy, configure and support Cisco ACI and Cisco Nexus solutions, including ACI Multi-Site and Multi-Pod environments.
- Configure and support Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO), including multi-site fabric environments.
- Implement and troubleshoot VXLAN EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs and Layer 2/Layer 3 networking.
- Support integration across data centre networking, Cisco UCS, compute, security, firewall and load-balancing environments.
- Translate approved designs into implementation activities and produce low-level designs, migration plans, as-built, change and supporting technical documentation.
- Perform testing, migration, cutover and deployment activities, troubleshooting complex issues and acting as a senior technical escalation point.
- Work closely with customers, architects, project teams and vendors, proactively managing technical risks, issues and dependencies to achieve agreed project outcomes.
About You
- Extensive hands-on experience implementing, supporting and troubleshooting enterprise and data centre network environments.
- Deep technical capability across Cisco ACI, Nexus and NX-OS, including ACI Multi-Site, Multi-Pod or comparable multi-site architectures.
- Strong understanding of VXLAN EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs and enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 networking.
- Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard/NDO, together with working knowledge of Cisco UCS and data centre compute/network integration.
- Experience integrating data centre networking with security and application delivery technologies such as F5, Fortinet, Check Point or similar platforms.
- Strong customer-facing delivery capability, including technical documentation, formal change processes and working across engineering, architecture and project teams.
- Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP Data Center, CCIE Data Center or equivalent will be highly regarded.