Job Information
Logicalis, Inc. Cisco ACI Subject Matter Expert in Beachwood, Ohio
Summary
Expert or professional level deployment and integration experience will be required for Cisco FTD and FMC. Ideal candidate will be knowledgeable in migration from Cisco ASA to Cisco FTD using FMC.
Initial long-term project (12-18 months) will be the refresh of an existing datacenter with previous versions of ACI and firewall code. Candidate will work with an existing SME team to execute on the refresh.
Provides professional services delivery as related to infrastructure consulting, design, implementation, configuration and knowledge transfer to Logicalis clients. Designs, analyzes and implements variety of IT infrastructure initiatives with focus on end user virtualization environments and server platforms where they are hosted. Acts as technical lead and provides subject matter expertise and implementation guidance to clients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Performs implementations of overall solutions for customers, including development of solution designs, implementation plans and documentation.
Develops Logicalis standards for scoping, documentation, and implementations.
Provides, as subject matter expert, guidance, assistance and recommendations to determine new technical services and solutions for client's business.
Leads project teams to deliver successful implementations.
Performs expert integration and customized consulting services.
Satisfies client technology services and solution requirements using best practices to:
Design
Plan
Implement
Validate and Test
Document
Provide Knowledge Transfer
Troubleshoot
Support
Works directly with client to gather requirements, design solutions, build proof of concepts and implementations solutions. These solutions can entail any of the following:
Architecture & Design
Leads end-to-end ACI fabric architecture (tenant/VRF/BD/EPG modeling, contracts, filters, L3Out, service graphing, QoS policies).
Defines greenfield/brownfield designs, migration approaches, and integration strategies (ACI Multi-Pod, Multi-Site, Remote Leaf, Cloud APIC).
Develops high-quality artifacts: HLD/LLD, diagrams, configuration runbooks, as-built documentation, operational procedures.
Implementation & Integration
Deploys and configure APIC, spines/leaves, firmware/EP, and policy constructs.
Integrates ACI with virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere/NSX), hypervisors, Cisco UCS, firewalls, L4-L7 service insertion.
Implements secure micro-segmentation, contract-based policy enforcement, RBAC, and role/tenant boundaries.
Operations & Optimization
Performs advanced troubleshooting: policy resolution, endpoint learning, spine/leaf adjacencies, faults/events, telemetry.
Optimizes VXLAN overlays, BGP/OSPF/MP-BGP, multicast/IGMP, L3Out routing for performance and resilience.
Establishes monitoring, SLA/KPI dashboards, and continuous improvement practices.
Security & Compliance
- Implements Zero Trust segmentation, multi-tenancy, L4-L7 service chaining, traffic inspection.