Hiring Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer with Micro-Segmentation exp For Mumbai

Job Description Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer

Position: Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Mumbai

Employment Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners / Short Notice Preferred

Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Cisco ACI L2/L3 Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Cisco ACI implementation, operations, troubleshooting, and Micro-Segmentation. The ideal candidate should have strong networking fundamentals and practical experience managing complex ACI environments, particularly ESG-based Micro-Segmentation and policy enforcement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day Cisco ACI operations, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting across ACI, Routing, Switching, and L2/L3 networking environments.
• Configure and manage ACI Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains (BDs), EPGs, VLANs, Contracts, and policies.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot ACI Micro-Segmentation policies.
• Work extensively with ESG-based segmentation, including:
• ESG creation and classification
• ESG/EPG association and policy configuration
• ESG-based contracts
• uSeg (Micro-Segmentation)
• Contract and filter configuration
• Policy enforcement and troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot connectivity and policy-related issues involving EPG, ESG, Contracts, VRFs, BDs, and endpoint classification.
• Analyze and resolve complex routing, switching, and ACI fabric-related issues.
• Work with application, security, network, and infrastructure teams to implement segmentation and connectivity requirements.
• Participate in incident management, problem management, and change activities related to the ACI environment.
• Perform root-cause analysis and provide technical recommendations for recurring ACI/network issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco ACI projects and operations.
• Excellent understanding of Cisco ACI architecture and fabric components.
• Strong L2/L3 networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with:
• EPG
• ESG
• Contracts & Filters
• uSeg / Micro-Segmentation
• VRF
• Bridge Domain
• Tenant
• VLAN
• ACI Policy Configuration
• Strong knowledge of Routing & Switching concepts and troubleshooting.
• Experience in troubleshooting ACI policy enforcement and endpoint connectivity issues.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues in an ACI environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cisco ACI certification or relevant Cisco certifications will be an added advantage.
• Experience working in enterprise data center environments.
• Experience with large-scale Cisco ACI deployments and production operations.
• Exposure to integration of ACI with firewalls, load balancers, virtualization platforms, and other data center technologies.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently in a critical production environment.
• Strong incident-resolution and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle critical infrastructure issues.

Notice Period: Immediate joiners or candidates available within a very short notice period will be strongly preferred.