SD-WAN

The ideal candidate is a senior network engineer who can lead the Cisco SD-WAN design conversation while still having enough WAN, MPLS, fiber, and LAN integration knowledge to ensure the solution works end to end.

• 10+ years of enterprise or service provider network engineering experience, with significant hands-on responsibility for WAN, routing, and production network environments.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Cisco SD-WAN solutions.
• Strong understanding of Cisco SD-WAN architecture, including overlay/underlay design, vManage, vBond, vSmart, WAN edge routing, templates, policies, and centralized management.
• Experience building Cisco SD-WAN solutions over MPLS, Internet, broadband, LTE/5G, and hybrid WAN transports.
• Strong routing expertise with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, route redistribution, route filtering, route maps, prefix lists, communities, and policy-based routing.
• Working knowledge of MPLS services, including L3VPN, L2VPN, VRFs, PE/CE routing, QoS, and carrier handoff models.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco WAN edge and routing platforms such as Cisco Catalyst 8000/8500, ASR, ISR, or equivalent enterprise/service provider platforms.
• Strong understanding of how WAN circuits physically terminate into customer environments, including carrier handoffs, fiber, optics, routers, switches, firewalls, and LAN aggregation devices.
• Ability to troubleshoot across multiple layers, including physical fiber, carrier services, routing, SD-WAN overlays, QoS, firewall integration, and application performance.
• Experience leading technical cutovers, site migrations, WAN transformations, circuit turn-ups, and high-risk maintenance windows.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, diagrams, implementation plans, validation plans, and operational handoff materials.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain Cisco SD-WAN, WAN, routing, and fiber concepts to technical teams, project teams, and client stakeholders.