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.