NEW JOB OPENING
CONSULTING ENGINEER CATALYST & DNAC
IN AUSTIN, TX, USA!

 

Date Posted: 01/14/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 495602
Industry: IT Company
Job Title: Consulting Engineer Catalyst & DNAC
Job Location: Austin, TX, USA, 78758
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Hybrid (3 Days/week in Office)
Shift: CST Business Hours
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 12
Min Hourly Rate($): 65.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 76.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: BGP, Catalyst, EIGRP, LISP, MPLS, OSPF, Routing, Switches
Nice To Have Skills/Attributes: Python
Experience Desired: Expert hands-on experience with Cisco Catalyst Switching and Catalyst Center DNAC including SDA (5 yrs); Strong Enterprise Routing and Switching expertise including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VXLAN, LISP, VRF (5 yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

**C2C is not available**

 

Job Description
Minimum Qualifications:
• Typically requires BS in a technical field (CS/EE preferred) or equivalent plus 8+ years related experience.
• Expert level (e.g. CCIE, CCNP) or equivalent relevant certification desired.
• Client DevNet certification is preferred.
• Has moderate to advanced knowledge of software programmability, automation, orchestration, virtualization and/or security.
• Ability to apply critical thinking to function effectively in ambiguous circumstances.
• Successfully communicates difficult concepts. Guides, influences and persuades others either internally and externally.
• Client facing experience. Ability to be onsite once a week or twice a week, at the customer location.

In depth knowledge in one or more of the following technical domains:

Desired Skills:
The Consulting Engineer’s primary role is positioning, architecting and delivering service solutions around Client Enterprise technologies and integrating them into the customer's overall data center architecture and design. This position will help drive sales, serve as Enterprise Networking subject matter expert, lead delivery efforts and mentor other technical consultants within the team. Since this is a high-profile position with interface to Client premier customers, travel may be required and can be anywhere from 10-25% of the time.

Experience/Skills: The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and expert knowledge of Client Enterprise products and solutions. Candidate must be self-motivated, team oriented and must possess strong interpersonal and presentation skills. The following skillsets are thus desired of this candidate:

• 6-8 years within Professional Service role(s) in Client Networking
• 3-5 years of experience leading large scale Enterprise Design and Implementation Engagements, preferably in Client Environment
• Experience in Programming and Automation. Python, and Ansible desired
• Expert level knowledge in Client Catalyst Center, Catalyst Switches, SDA highly desired
• Expert level knowledge highly desired in Enterprise Routing and Switching technologies, such as MPLS, DMVPN, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS VXLAN, LISP and VRF.
• Outstanding Consulting skills. Required at least 8 years of experience in consulting roles. Ability to influence customer decisions and outcomes. Ability to gain customer trust quickly, and confidently articulate Client Enterprise Networking SD strategies and architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Demonstrated knowledge of Campus Networking environments
• One or more CCIE Preferred, in order of preference: Enterprise, Security or any other Catalyst Center Hands-on knowledge and Catalyst Automation are highly required skills on this role
• High level / working knowledge of Wireless, and ISE technologies required (not mandatory)
• Knowledge of Network Segmentation, and TrustSec highly preferred (not a must)


What You'll Do:
Client Customer Experience (CX) team is one of the highest growing areas at Client. Passionate about the management and automation of customer’s hybrid IT, consultants work with some of the largest and thought-leading customers in the world. This Professional Services group helps build and maintain networks, leads implementations, and enables customer self-sufficiency on market-leading Client software products.

Who You'll Work With:
As a Consulting Engineer, you will report directly into the Customer Experience (CX) Delivery Team with primary responsibility for the installation, integration, customization and delivery of Client Software products focusing on cloud and networking orchestration and automation. There will be significant customer interaction including on-site delivery for POCs, Production-Pilots and Production deployments.

Who You Are:
• Influences customer decisions on IT, operations, and technology strategies to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Drives standardization of processes, performance metrics, and best practice adoption to enhance CX delivery efficiency.
• Leads the design and delivery of end-to-end solutions integrating advanced technologies (Catalyst Switching, Catalyst Center, Routing & Switching, Automation based on Catalyst Center)
• Aligns delivery with customer outcomes, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and with reduced risks.
• Expert in multi-domain, cross-architecture technology solutions, addressing complex customer IT and business challenges.
• 10+ years of experience in customer-centric solution design and service delivery.
• Advanced certifications (e.g., CCIE, DevNet Pro) and expertise in programmability, cloud, automation, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Partners with customers to align solutions with their business models, goals, and challenges, focusing on ROI and value creation.
• Identifies renewal and upsell opportunities, tying them to technology lifecycle and customer strategies.
• Individual contributor

Role & Responsibilities:
• This role is largely focusing on a single customer based in Austin, TX who is looking for Enterprise networking expertise to help optimize their Catalyst Networks in the US.
• The role will be part of a lifecycle services rendered to by Client CX Organization at this customer for 12 months.
• The responsibilities will include 5-day consulting (both onsite & remote) of customer on their network services, as part of a practice services engagement led by Client CS.
• The Role connects with Client internal stakeholders, customers and partners across functions and boundaries to achieve significant results. Earns the confidence of Client leaders and customers and able to use the confidence to achieve results.
• Decisions impact the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives.
• Contribute effectively in the areas of Customer Problem Resolution; Innovation; Engineering Engagement; Intellectual Capital; Talent Development.
• Interacts effectively with Engineering to solve complex problems, identifies serviceability issues and drives resolution of the issues with Engineering and other organizations.
• Provides technical expertise and guidance to resolve complex customer problems in support of critical issues.
• Owner and keeper of our culture.
• Continuously learning and strengthening technical skills for relevant technical domain and adjacent technologies.
• Is a technical expert in a broad area covering multiple technologies. Applies expected product behavior across industry practices. Knows how the technology is expected to work in the industry.
• Recognized as a technical expert and leader in their technical domain.
• Independently applies knowledge and experience in creating solutions for customer outcomes.
• Solves extremely complex problems where analysis requires in-depth evaluation of factors with imaginative and innovative troubleshooting and experimentation as well as evaluation of intangible variables.
• Initiates review of ideas and technical objectives within and across Services. Work is performed without appreciable direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. Completed work is reviewed by management and through consultation from a relatively long-time perspective for results.
• Works independently, with guidance in complex situations only. Able to lead some projects or programs within a function and may act as a team leader to coordinate activities of other personnel.


Why Client:
We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. We are inspiring leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Client


  • **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

  • **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**

 

Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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