Customer Delivery Architect

Role Overview

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead solution architect across complex customer engagements, translating strategic business priorities into scalable Data Center (VXLAN EVPN, Nexus) and Security (ISE, NGFW) architectural designs.
• Provide strategic technical guidance to customer leaders and account teams, steering post-sales architecture strategy to accelerate solution adoption and long-term value realization.
• Architect secure multi-tenant overlay networks, defining BGP EVPN control planes, multi-site fabrics, VRF segmentation, and micro-segmentation policies.
• Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams, reviewing technical deliverables, ensuring delivery quality, and embedding network automation using Python, Ansible, and Terraform into customer environments.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) with 10+ years of related network architecture and engineering experience.
• Active Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification in Data Center, Security, Enterprise, or Routing & Switching (or equivalent demonstrated industry expertise).
• Demonstrated architectural experience designing and deploying Data Center overlay networks (VXLAN EVPN, Nexus) OR Enterprise Routing & Switching architectures (BGP, OSPF, Multicast, DCI, SD-WAN, or SDA) OR Cisco Security solutions (such as Cisco ISE or Next-Generation Firewalls / FTD / ASA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing hybrid environments using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Software-Defined Access (SDA / SD-WAN).
• Hands-on expertise with Cisco Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) and Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA).
• Proven track record leading multi-site data center migrations and establishing enterprise network segmentation frameworks.
• Experience integrating VXLAN EVPN networks with cloud-based platforms or SDN controllers.
• Strong background mentoring engineering peers, leading customer technical design workshops, and authoring technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying network automation scripts using Python, Ansible, or Terraform.

Location and Travel

• Hybrid role with 2 days in the office, based in Dubai or Doha.
• Travel requirement of 20%.

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