Oualid Hjira

I'm a senior network engineer with a significant experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting and automating network infrastructures and more precisely Data center platforms like ACI, VXLAN...

During my first experience, I was in charge of deploying a new data center based on VPC Back-to-Back technology between the core Nexus 9K switchs and the access 5K + 2K ones with HSRP for the L3 redundancy.

Simultaneously, I dealt with many project that involve the routing aspects: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPSEC, SDWAN, and OMP.

Actually I’m more focused on ACI related projects, i had the opportunity to work as a network designer to build an ACI Multi Site Fabric from scratch for 2 customers, these projects needed a big understanding of how the actual infrastructure works and how we can carry all the workloads towards the ACI Farbic without service disruption, In addition to the networking part, we needed more insight about the Firewalling, Virtualization, load balancing and storage parts in order to integrate these scopes into ACI.

Moroever, I have built a netDevOps platform that automates the ACI Fabric in CI/CD fashion via ansible scripts to push/pull APIC ACI related objects, gitlab for the versioning, and AWX.