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