Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company developing solutions that connect and protect organizations across physical and digital environments. The Solutions Engineer will partner with account executives, customers, partners, and cross-functional teams to design, demonstrate, configure, and sell secure networking solutions. The role focuses on routing, switching, wireless, security, automation, customer requirements, RFPs, and proof-of-concept activities.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
- Driving demand generation activities
- Enable technology capabilities internally with Portfolio Account Teams and externally with our partners
- Understanding customer requirements and mapping technical solutions to meet the needs
- Network design
- Deep product and solution knowledge: Product positioning, differentiation across solutions, operational characteristics
- Performing product demo and Proof of Concept (PoC) labs
- Maintaining competitive knowledge to strategically position Cisco’s products and services
- Following market transition and industry trends to anticipate customer needs
- Aligning cross-functionally to various business entities and teams across the company
- Challenger attitude willing to help customers with sophisticated/challenging digital transformation opportunities
Skills
- 5+ years of validated experience sizing and crafting Routing, Wireless and Switching deployments both On-Prem and Cloud Based
- 5+ years of developed skills and knowledge in networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, LISP) network segmentation technologies (VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet
- Pre-sales experience
- Typically requires BS/BA (preferably EE/CS) or equivalent
- Can work under pressure with minimum supervision
- Critical thinking to address customer concerns and to support customer business growth
- Customer-focused attitude
- Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Cisco and non-Cisco Certifications a plus (CCIE, CCDE, CCNP, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
- API and programmability knowledge is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, subject to the applicable Cisco plan
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