Sr. Cisco Network Consulting Engineer (Temporary 6 months)

CRG Solutions•Newtown Township, PA

About The Position

At CRG we are looking for a Network Engineer who will provide managed services to support customer’s network operations, by completing troubleshooting, escalating critical incidents, and proactively supporting change management processes, facilitates knowledge transfer to operations teams, and will be closely collaborating with onsite engineers from other regions, with the remote Cisco Day 2 team, different Business Units and Cisco Technical Assistance Center.

Requirements

At least 2 years of hands‑on experience in the following Cisco products and solutions (all items are mandatorily required):
DNAC / Catalyst Center (provisioning, assurance, and general operations/maintenance)
Software‑Defined Access (including LISP, SDA components, micro‑segmentation, and DNAC/ISE integration) — design, deployment, and troubleshooting
Catalyst 9000 Switch Family (e.g., 9200‑CX, 9300, 9500, 9600)
IPv4/IPv6 Routing (BGP, IS‑IS, OSPF)

Nice To Haves

IPv4/IPv6 Multicast
Scripting/DevOps experience (Python, Ansible, Robot Framework)

Responsibilities

Ongoing Design & Rollout Support Ongoing Design Support assists cusomter with guidance and recommendations in making incremental changes to customer’s designs.
Attend Design Review workshops and service meetings.
Provide recommendations to implement customer’s design changes, including:
Known and potential risks involved.
Impact on customer’s current environment.
Provide ongoing consultation for topics related to the above agreed-upon requirements that may impact the existing customer design(s).
Support for IPv6 design and rollout support for solutions across the office network.
Provide Design support and involved PoC activities.
Implement Lab infrastructure to support:
Verification of cross-regional SDA functionality.
Testing of region-specific scenarios and use cases.
Proactive Support for Change Management Process Serve as a designated single point-of-contact who has detailed knowledge of internal processes and needs to proactively assist customer during configuration changes or solution-related issues.
Review of customer’s maintenance window procedures.
Technical team on standby during maintenance window.
Support for technical aspects of changes.
Listing of software upgrades available.
Maintenance window preparation.
Configuration of assistance in support of service requests.
Operations Consulting Deliver Operations Consulting covering the following topics:
Direct access to Cisco internal processes, tools, business units, and relevant resources such as TAC to address critical incidents, chronic issues, and feature requests regarding customer’s network solution.
Assist customer with open service requests with Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC).
Collaborate by providing technical leadership of Cisco products, services, and knowledge of your unique network to TAC, ultimately leading to faster service restoration.
Perform troubleshooting of complex issues, impact, and risk assessments for Severity 1 and Severity 2 incidents.
Provide root causes, and deliver consultative support to help develop a plan of action designed to prevent, address, and minimize the business impact of the problem by:
Establishing root causes of network infrastructure issues.
Test and verify the most probable cause.
Prepare root cause analysis documentation.
Recommend corrective actions.
Share intimate knowledge of network design, components, and configuration.
Knowledge Management Assist customer´s Operations staff to enhance technical design and deployment knowledge using Knowledge Transfer Sessions for Operations.
Conduct Remote/Onsite Knowledge Transfer Sessions to provide customer with informal training sessions about their deployed Cisco infrastructure.
These informal training sessions supplement formal classroom training.