Cisco Consultant

Position Overview MetroSys is seeking an experienced Cisco Data Center Consultant to support pre-sales and assessment activities for enterprise clients. This role will serve as a trusted technical resource during customer discovery, infrastructure assessments, and solution development engagements. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on Cisco data center expertise with the ability to engage clients, assess current-state environments, identify risks and opportunities, and help develop modernization roadmaps and solution recommendations. This is an ad hoc consulting role intended to support pre-sales opportunities, infrastructure assessments, workshops, and customer-facing technical engagements. Travel may be required based on client needs. Key Responsibilities - Conduct technical discovery sessions and infrastructure assessments for enterprise data center environments. - Evaluate current-state compute, network, virtualization, and storage architectures. - Perform Cisco-focused assessments across: - Cisco UCS - Cisco Nexus - Cisco ACI - Cisco MDS - Cisco Intersight - Identify technical risks, lifecycle concerns, performance bottlenecks, and modernization opportunities. - Develop assessment findings, recommendations, and executive-level reports. - Support solution architects and sales teams during customer engagements. - Participate in customer workshops, design reviews, and strategy sessions. - Assist with scoping projects, developing statements of work (SOWs), and estimating implementation efforts. - Provide guidance on: - Data center modernization - Compute refresh initiatives - Virtualization platforms - Hybrid cloud connectivity - Network and storage integration - Deliver architecture recommendations and migration strategies aligned with client business objectives. - Serve as a subject matter expert during technical presentations and customer discussions. Required Qualifications - 3+ years of enterprise data center engineering or consulting - Deep hands-on expertise with: - Cisco UCS - Cisco Nexus - Cisco ACI - Cisco Data Center networking - Strong understanding of: - VMware environments - Data center networking - Compute and storage infrastructure - Disaster recovery and high availability design - Experience performing infrastructure assessments and technical discovery workshops. - Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders. - Experience supporting pre-sales and solution development activities. - Ability to travel throughout the Eastern United States as required. Originally posted on Himalayas