Network Engineer

Skills Cisco ESA, DevOps, F5 ASM, Fortinet IPS, Load Balancing, Networking, on-premise to cloud migration. Requirements 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 (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 (Palo Alto, Fortinet, 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 (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for proactive troubleshooting.