Network Design Specialist - ACI (Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Please note - Any UK Location will be considered for this one - 3 days a week required in your nearest BT office.
Why this job matters
Your day to day role is to design and deliver solutions for BT’s customers and will specialise in Data Centre technologies specifically Cisco ACI.
Our customers are generally external customers so you will be recognised with that enhanced level of visibility and responsibility.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be working as part of a dedicated team that spans the globe. As a Specialist you’ll be responsible for delivering Large to Complex designs.
Working with other designers you will be the design lead who will be expected to review all components and then deliver the overall design. You will have an expert knowledge of the overall design and will contribute to technical discussions within the team, leading others towards a better understanding and encouraging a dialogue to improve the design principles.
You will be required to impart your design principles towards a more senior level, shaping our future direction. We do great things for our customers, and we need all our people to put the customer first.
You will promote what we do and understand the customers’ needs to relevant solutions.
What we would like to see on your CV
* Strong understanding of ACI hardware and topologies.
* Experience of setting up an ACI fabric from scratch.
* Experience in designing and implementing the following ACI logical and physical constructs:
* Tenant building blocks including the following –
* Tenants
* VRFs
* Bridge Domains
* End Point Groups
* Application Profiles
* Contracts
* Access Policies including the following –
* Pools, Domains and AAEPs
* Policies and Policy Groups
* Profiles and Selectors
* Extending Layer 2 outside ACI using L2Outs, L3Outs
* ACI integrations including vSphere using VDS and implementing Service Graphs
Cisco ACI certified – CCNP Data Centre
Benefits
At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.
Benefits of working for BT include:
• 10% on target annual bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• X4 Salary Life Assurance
• Huge range of flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Healthcare, Season Ticket Loan, Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice
• 25 days annual leave (not including