Consulting Engineer, MPLS

Role Title: Consulting Engineer - MPLS

Travel: Up to 30%

Location: Egypt

Meet the Team

Our team is committed to fostering a supportive and engaging environment. Here, youll have the opportunity to learn from industry-leading experts, ensuring not only your professional growth but also your personal development.

Youll collaborate with a group of exceptionally talented individuals, including world-class technical experts in a wide range of technologies, all working together towards a common goal with dedication and expertise, while supporting a diverse array of large customers across the region.

We tackle a variety of projects that vary in size and scope, with our current focus on preparing our customers for the exciting future ready AI Transformation.

Your Impact

The Customer Experience (CX) Consulting Engineer (CE) is a technical consulting specialist role engaging with customers. The focus is to help our customers adopt the Cisco products & solutions they purchase from us that allows them to innovate and transform their business, ultimately driving growth. The role resides within the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organization, one of Ciscos fastest growing businesses.

Minimum Qualifications:

• CCIE or equivalent experience
• Excellent ASR9K platforms product architecture knowledge and hands on experience including MPLS, BGP, OSPF and ISIS.
• Solid experience in Cisco Core routers and switches devices.
• Well experience on IOS-XR and IOS-XE.
• Solid grasp of the end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, policies and supporting network and security technologies.
• Strong knowledge in NCS-IOSXR platform, and hands-on experience in Segment Routing
• Strong customer-facing skills.
• Solid grasp of the industry landscape (competitors and partners).
• Interpersonal skills to include problem solving, influencing, presentation/demonstration, and written communication.
• Knowledge of native as well as third party Network management, monitoring, and provisioning tools.
• ASR1K series, NCS series, N9K, N7K, N5K and Modular Switches.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide Planning, Designing, Implementation and Optimization services to Cisco Advanced Services Customers.
• Generate HLD, LLD, BoQ, NIP and other technical documents for the project life cycle.
• Attending Customer Meetings to highlight ongoing risks and issues, technical ownership and direction of projects.
• Working as part of a multi-functional team to identify, develop, and deliver customer projects.
• Architect, lead, and implement technical project activities.
• Actively involved in the latest industry SP MPLS deployments
• Establish trusted advisor relationship with customer management and teams on SP MPLS Infrastructure areas and future technology trends.
• Participates in or leads sophisticated SP MPLS design/implementation and migration, performance engineering or problem resolution projects.
• Solves complex, multi-functional issues that cross many technologies including MPLS, BGP, IPv4/IPv6, TE (Traffic Engineering) Segment Routing, OSPF and ISIS.
• Applies good analytic process to help bring any issue to resolution.
• Delivers migration plans, with a detailed understanding on networked applications and related dependencies.
• Ensure compliance to delivery methodology operational structure, roles & responsibilities.
• Track work against the engagement schedule and support the PM track financial, resource and material requirements for the engagements.
• Guide other consultants and engineers, resolving challenges and ensuring customer success.

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Ciscos flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Ciscos Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

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