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 datacenter environments. In this role, you will define service offerings, design secure environments and drive automation strategies to ensure operational excellence across complex datacenter infrastructures.

Feel free to work remotely from anywhere across Latvia or connect with colleagues at our Riga office.

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

• Engineering Heritage: Best-in-class experts sharing a culture of engineering excellence and tackling complex engineering challenges for over 30 years.
• Advanced Tech Stack: Innovative projects where you can apply or enhance your expertise in Cloud, Data, AI, and other emerging technologies.
• World-Class Clients: Work closely with 340+ of the Forbes Global 2000 on creating disruptive solutions that make a global impact.
• Professional Growth: Exceptional support for career development with comprehensive resources for upskilling or reskilling in pioneering practices.
• GenAI Community: Strong AI competencies with 600+ experts across 55+ locations driving GenAI-enabled transformation journeys.
• Entrepreneurial Culture: If you're passionate and dedicated to improving business transformation, we provide the support you need to bring your ideas to life.
• Hybrid Setup: The flexibility to work from any location in Latvia, whether it's your home or our office in Riga.
• Other Benefits: Additional vacation and trust days, private health insurance, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and more.

Salary range €5.5K-€7.2K gross, based on your experience and interview results.

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. For over 30 years, our team has helped leading brands navigate the waves of digital transformation, building solutions that help them stay competitive through constant market disruption.With offices in 55+ countries, EPAM has grown in Latvia to over 150+ talented innovators in 4 years. We foster creativity and unconventional ways of doing things, welcoming like-minded professionals to join us.