At Tonic3, we are looking for a Consulting Engineer – Customer Delivery with strong Enterprise networking experience to support customer-facing validation and delivery engagements in complex network environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy hands-on technical work, direct customer interaction, and validating enterprise and service provider network solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Engage with customers and other stakeholders on successful planning and execution of validation engagements.

• Support next generation R&S, Enterprise and Service Provider customers to accelerate implementation of new platforms/solutions.

• Validate new design solutions to meet customer requirements.

• Drive requirements discussions, analyze test requirements, build test lab configurations, author and execute test plans, and document results.

• Identify key issues and gaps and work with engineering and delivery teams to resolve them.

• Develop/integrate new technologies into lab environments.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects from Delivery and Sales teams regarding future initiatives and securing customer business.

• Innovate to gain efficiency and accelerate validation efforts.

• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure successful project delivery. 

• Identify and facilitate new business growth opportunities.
  

What We’re Looking For

• Customer Facing experience (ability to interface and interact with customers successfully).

• Previous experience in complex network troubleshooting or TAC-style experience.  

• 3 - 8 years of experience with Catalyst 8ks, ASRs and ISR. Good understanding and experience with Cisco IOS-XE and IOS-XR

• Very good understanding and experience on L2 switching, L3 routing and routing protocols (specifically OSPF and BGP). 

• Understanding and experience with VPNs (IPsec, DMVPN, ISAKMP, IKE, etc) and MPLS. 

• Understanding of other protocols and features such as NAT, QoS, SNMP, TACACs, etc. 

• Basic Programming/Scripting Skill (preferably Python)

• Basic working knowledge in yang models, configuration management, APIs and operational models.

• Strong Written and Verbal skills.
  
  

Preferred skills:

• Some degree of programming/Scripting, orchestration and automation skills (preferably Python, Ansible, Terraform).

• Good understanding of data models, various data formats such as YAML, JSON and XML and of APIs. 

• Experience in large-scale enterprise network deployments.

• Experience with Cisco network management and monitoring tools.

• Strong knowledge of network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, and VPN technologies.

• Knowledge of designing Enterprise solutions, DMVPNs, and hub-spoke topologies. 

• Preferred exposure to Cisco ISRs, ASRs and Catalyst product lines and IOS-XE and IOS-XR. 

• Preferably a CCNA or CCNP level certification.

• Proficient with Industry Test Tools; Spirent or Ixia preferred

• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and formal presentation)

• Ability and experience debugging and troubleshooting complex network problems.

📩 Interested? Apply or contact our Talent team to learn more.