Business Consultant, Networks & Telecommunication

We are seeking an experienced Business Consultant to serve as lead engineer for a global Cisco ACI fabric, owning architecture, security, product and service design, automation and innovation across production data center environments. In this role, you will define service offerings, design secure environments and drive automation strategies to ensure operational excellence across complex data center infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering for a global Cisco ACI fabric, owning architecture, security, product and service design, automation and innovation across production datacenter environments
• Definition of product descriptions and tiered service offerings for ADC and DCLAN services (Bronze/Silver/Gold), including explicit SLOs for availability, failover time and change-request lead time; maintain service catalog alignment to business consumption models
• Design and implementation of secure incident recovery environments using ACI VRF remap as the containment primitive to enable isolated failover testing across Firepower, FortiGate and F5 without production impact; identify and document platform constraints impacting VRF remap behavior
• Architect and deliver F5 BIG-IP Dual-PBR No-SNAT migrations on ACI 6.0, producing validated configuration bundles, automated deployment scripts and validation documentation
• Drive ACI ESG micro-segmentation strategy and migration execution, including phased contract design; build Python tooling for tenant migration validation and configuration generation
• Design of Cilium BGP L3Out integration for Kubernetes workloads on ACI, including BFD tuning for VMware compatibility and route-map controls to prevent pod CIDR leakage into the fabric VRF
• Build hybrid IaC pipelines (Terraform Day-1, Ansible/AWX Day-2) for F5 BIG-IP LTM/SSL services with tiered service models and ServiceNow-triggered provisioning
• Ensure operational excellence by sustaining high fabric availability, reducing unscheduled outages, meeting aggressive CVE patch timelines and maintaining strong zero-trust segmentation audit scores

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in networks and telecommunication engineering within production datacenter environments
• Expertise in Cisco ACI (Multi-Pod, Multi-Site, ESG, PBR Service Graphs, APIC REST API)
• Knowledge of Nexus 9K/7K/5K, VXLAN and vPC
• Proficiency in F5 BIG-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS, iRules, PBR, DSR, SNAT/No-SNAT)
• Skills in Citrix NetScaler load balancing and ADC technologies
• Advanced proficiency in English (C2)

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible/AWX and Python
• Background in GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Pipelines

We offer

We gather like-minded people:

• Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
• Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
• Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
• Business-driven relocation opportunities

We provide growth opportunities:

• Career development programs
• Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes

We cover it all:

• Stable pay
• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
• Corporate, social and well-being events

Please, note:

• Benefits listed above are available to employees only
• We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
• We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.

Hybrid in Poland