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# Cisco Data Center Consultant

- **Company:** After School Matters, Inc.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Cisco Nexus Switches, Virtualization Technology, System Availability, HybridCloud, Data Center Networking, Storage Technologies, Cisco, Vmware
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://metrosys.applytojob.com/apply/PVxpnOKCLl/Cisco-Consultant?source=GS

## About the Role

* 3+ years of enterprise data center engineering or consulting
 * Deep hands-on expertise with:
 + Cisco UCS
 + Cisco Nexus
 + Cisco ACI
 + Cisco Data Center networking
 * Strong understanding of:
 + VMware environments
 + Data center networking
 + Compute and storage infrastructure
 + Disaster recovery and high availability design
 * Experience performing infrastructure assessments and technical discovery workshops.
 * Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders.
 * Experience supporting pre-sales and solution development activities.
 * Ability to travel throughout the Eastern United States as required.

## Description

MetroSys is seeking an experienced Cisco Data Center Consultant to support pre-sales and assessment activities for enterprise clients. This role will serve as a trusted technical resource during customer discovery, infrastructure assessments, and solution development engagements.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on Cisco data center expertise with the ability to engage clients, assess current-state environments, identify risks and opportunities, and help develop modernization roadmaps and solution recommendations.

This is an ad hoc consulting role intended to support pre-sales opportunities, infrastructure assessments, workshops, and customer-facing technical engagements. Travel may be required based on client needs., * Conduct technical discovery sessions and infrastructure assessments for enterprise data center environments.

 * Evaluate current-state compute, network, virtualization, and storage architectures.
 * Perform Cisco-focused assessments across:
 + Cisco UCS
 + Cisco Nexus
 + Cisco ACI
 + Cisco MDS
 + Cisco Intersight
 * Identify technical risks, lifecycle concerns, performance bottlenecks, and modernization opportunities.
 * Develop assessment findings, recommendations, and executive-level reports.
 * Support solution architects and sales teams during customer engagements.
 * Participate in customer workshops, design reviews, and strategy sessions.
 * Assist with scoping projects, developing statements of work (SOWs), and estimating implementation efforts.
 * Provide guidance on:
 + Data center modernization
 + Compute refresh initiatives
 + Virtualization platforms
 + Hybrid cloud connectivity
 + Network and storage integration
 * Deliver architecture recommendations and migration strategies aligned with client business objectives.
 * Serve as a subject matter expert during technical presentations and customer discussions.


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