ACI Network Engineer

5 days ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Paracon Full time R180 000 - R300 000 per year

We are seeking a versatile Network Engineer / Team Lead with strong Cisco ACI expertise and the ability to operate as a generalist across all areas of the network environment. This role combines technical delivery, team leadership, and end-to-end responsibility for maintaining and enhancing a complex enterprise and data centre network. The successful candidate will lead a team of 5 network engineers, 3 network interns, provide escalation support, and ensure seamless day-to-day operations while driving forward ACI-focused initiatives. The Required Tasks and Candidate Requirements are including, but not limited to

Required Tasks:
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents across the entire network environment including LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, firewalls, load balancers, and data centre infrastructure.

Provide ACI-specific support: APIC management, spine/leaf troubleshooting, and tenant policy administration.

Perform root cause analysis of recurring network issues and implement corrective actions.

Support change management processes including configuration changes, upgrades, and patching across all network platforms.

Cisco ACI Focus: Design and implement scalable ACI policies (tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, EPGs, contracts) aligned with business and security requirements.

Drive ACI fabric expansion, migrations, and multi-site or hybrid cloud integrations.

General Networking: Contribute to projects involving routing/switching, wireless, firewalls, WAN optimization, and load balancing.

Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and network diagrams.

Requirements:
5 years of professional networking experience, with at least 2-3 years in Cisco ACI.

Strong generalist background across LAN/WAN, routing/switching, firewalls (Cisco/Checkpoint), wireless, load balancers (F5), and VPN technologies.

Proven expertise with Cisco ACI fabric (APIC, spines, leaves), tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, EPGs, and contracts.

Familiarity with Layer 2/3 protocols (VLANs, VXLAN, OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP EVPN).

Demonstrated leadership or team lead experience managing small to medium-sized teams

Desired Skills and Experience
LAN/WAN, routing/switching, firewalls (Cisco/Checkpoint), wireless, load balancers (F5), and VPN technologies

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