Description Our client is looking for Sr. Network Engineer- ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure)-W2 Location: Houston Downtown - Must work onsite 5 days a week. Industry: Oil and Gas. Long term Contract - 1 year. W2 only. Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Engineer plays a crucial role in providing world class solution support to customers/partners/account teams to solve their problems. ACI is a revolutionary technology that allows application requirements to define the network. Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide third level technical support for ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and integrated components
- Work across multiple facets within the Data Center environment including 3rd party products to resolving product and software problems through a process of analysis and sophisticated lab simulations
- Develop and maintain relationships across functional groups as well as mentor other engineers.
- Acts as a technical expert to provide technology/product training, developing documentation and automation
- Interact across support teams, 3rd party vendors, Cisco Sales, Professional Services, Development teams to solve customer issues and improve processes
- Lead and participate in business and innovation initiatives with a focus on automation
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 5 years of customer support experience, including strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, proven crisis management skills and ability to handle sophisticated customer issues
- Experience with Virtualization (OpenStack / VMware vSphere / Microsoft Hyper V / Red Hat KVM / Linux Containers etc)
- Working knowledge of Data Center, Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) and Virtualization industry, products and protocols
- An energetic team player with a passion for technology and a demonstrated ability to work in a support environment
Desired Skills
- Cisco certification is a plus (CCIE DC / R&S)
- Strong Routing & Switching
- Good Practical knowledge of ACI, Nexus Switches, UCS and HX products
- Python or other programming languages
- Experience with API's (JSON, XML) load balancing, firewalls, etc
- Knowledge of Linux. Experience with multiple distributions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc), networking, virtualization, and server software (Apache, open iSCSI, NFS, MySQL and/or Galera, MongoDB, etc)
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