Lead Networks & Telecommunications Engineer

• 5+ years of experience with Cisco ACI (Multi-Pod, Multi-Site, ESG, PBR Service Graphs, APIC REST API) and Nexus 9K/7K/5K platforms
• 5+ years of experience with VXLAN and vPC technologies in data center fabric environments
• 3+ years of experience with F5 BIG-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS, iRules, PBR, DSR, SNAT/No-SNAT) and Citrix NetScaler
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have:

• Skills in Terraform and Ansible/AWX for infrastructure automation
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and tooling development
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Lead the architecture, security, product and service design, automation, and innovation efforts for a global Cisco ACI fabric across production data center environments
• Define product descriptions and tiered service offerings for ADC and DCLAN services, including explicit SLOs for availability, failover time, and change-request lead time
• Maintain service catalog alignment to business consumption models
• Design and implement secure incident recovery environments using ACI VRF remap as the containment primitive to enable isolated failover testing across Firepower, FortiGate, and F5 without production impact
• Identify and document platform constraints impacting VRF remap behavior
• Architect and deliver F5 BIG-IP Dual-PBR No-SNAT migrations on ACI 6.0, producing validated configuration bundles, automated deployment scripts, and validation documentation
• Drive ACI ESG micro-segmentation strategy and migration execution, including phased contract design
• Build Python tooling for tenant migration validation and configuration generation
• Design Cilium BGP L3Out integration for Kubernetes workloads on ACI, including BFD tuning for VMware compatibility and route-map controls to prevent pod CIDR leakage into the fabric VRF
• Build hybrid IaC pipelines for F5 BIG-IP LTM/SSL services with tiered service models and ServiceNow-triggered provisioning
• Ensure operational excellence by sustaining high fabric availability, reducing unscheduled outages, meeting aggressive CVE patch timelines, and maintaining strong zero-trust segmentation audit scores

Travel to the Netherlands is required.