Cisco Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, design, and implementation activities for enterprise networking projects.
• Design and deploy Cisco SDA, SD-WAN, wireless, and routing and switching solutions.
• Conduct customer workshops, discovery sessions, and technical assessments.
• Develop high- and low-level designs, implementation plans, migration strategies, and test plans.
• Install, configure, integrate, migrate, and optimize Cisco networking solutions; troubleshoot complex issues.
• Coordinate with customer stakeholders, project managers, architects, and technical teams.
• Follow Cisco best practices and security standards; provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers when required.
• Support customer acceptance testing and transition to operations teams.

Required skills and experience

• Hands-on Cisco SDA, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco ISE, and campus fabric deployment experience.
• Expertise in Cisco SD-WAN, including vManage, vBond, vSmart, and WAN edge platforms.
• Experience with Cisco wireless, controllers, access points, RF optimization, and WiFi troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, HSRP, QoS, multicast, and network segmentation.
• Experience independently delivering enterprise network transformation projects.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, customer communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in customer-facing environments.
• CCNP Enterprise certification or equivalent experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, telecommunications, or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification preferred.
• Automation, APIs, and programmability experience is an advantage; security integration and network assurance familiarity is a plus.
• Large enterprise or government project experience in Saudi Arabia or the GCC is preferred.

Project environment