Job Description
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.
