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.