Senior Network Consultant – Segment Routing / SRv6
Role Overview
Join a networking subject matter expert team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting Cisco.
Design, deploy, migrate, and optimize next-generation network infrastructures for performance, scalability, and reliability.
The focus is carrier-grade network architecture, advanced routing, Segment Routing, and SRv6.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Join a networking subject matter expert team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting Cisco.
Design, deploy, migrate, and optimize next-generation network infrastructures for performance, scalability, and reliability.
The focus is carrier-grade network architecture, advanced routing, Segment Routing, and SRv6.
Key responsibilities
- Design and architect end-to-end network solutions leveraging Segment Routing and SRv6.
- Lead migrations from traditional MPLS architectures to SRv6-based environments.
- Deploy, configure, and optimize high-scale routing platforms in multi-vendor environments.
- Analyze network performance, plan capacity, and troubleshoot to ensure reliability.
- Resolve complex routing, latency, path-selection, and connectivity issues.
- Provide technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to junior network engineers.
- Collaborate with technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into network solutions.
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in advanced networking and routing technologies.
- Strong expertise in BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS.
- Extensive hands-on experience implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting Segment Routing.
- At least one year of hands-on experience designing and deploying SRv6 in production.
- Valid Cisco CCIE or CCDP certification.
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex network performance, routing, and connectivity issues.
Preferred skills
- Knowledge of network automation and programmability tools, including Python, Ansible, and NETCONF/YANG, is preferred.
- Strong understanding of Traffic Engineering and Network Slicing is preferred.
- Carrier-grade service provider network and large-scale network transformation experience is preferred.
- Communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills are preferred.
Employment
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