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[Remote] Cisco Consultant
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MetroSys, Inc. is seeking an experienced Cisco Data Center Consultant to support pre-sales and assessment activities for enterprise clients. This role will involve conducting technical discovery sessions, evaluating current-state architectures, and developing modernization roadmaps and solution recommendations.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 3+ years of enterprise data center engineering or consulting
- Deep hands-on expertise with Cisco UCS
- Deep hands-on expertise with Cisco Nexus
- Deep hands-on expertise with Cisco ACI
- Deep hands-on expertise with Cisco Data Center networking
- Strong understanding of VMware environments
- Strong understanding of Data center networking
- Strong understanding of Compute and storage infrastructure
- Strong understanding of 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
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