Solutions Engineer - Global Networking Solutions Engineering

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Meet the Team

Do you have a passion for technology? Have you ever thought to yourself, “I could build this better!”? Do you feel you have ideas for how to learn, teach, or sell Cisco technologies in new and creative ways? The Global Networking Solutions Engineering team is a world-class team that builds the bridge that makes transformation possible for our fellow sellers, customers, and for Cisco! Our focus is on Cisco networking technologies and how our routing, switching, wireless, and security platforms solve customer challenges and deliver business outcomes. Assets we deliver comprise the most used demonstrations in Cisco and strategic platforms that every architecture leverages, like Capture the Flag and Design Thinking. If you want to leverage your technical excellence and take the next step in career to deliver strategic innovation that drives sales growth, come join our team!

Your Impact

You'll be an operations-focused technical sales professional with intimate knowledge of customer-specific business drivers and networking environments, including adjacent technology and solution areas. You’ll act as a network operator for our senior Solutions Engineers. Partnering with the SE team, you will provide technical updates for Cisco networking products, lab testing of solution environments, and an innovative approach to automation. As a Cisco Solutions Engineer you will:

• Architect, design and communicate a technical solution/vision and integrate that into existing customer networking environments.
• Be passionate about redefining the customers next-generation networks
• Build total solutions with the use of APIs and programming skills to integrate Cisco solutions into customer workflows.
• Add new value to our automation solution by programming specific use cases for customers to help them understand the capabilities of integrating Cisco solutions into their operational workflow.
• Participate in and drive cross-architectural design engagements to build and demonstrate cross-domain solutions.
• Develop and communicate relevant business outcomes via written proposals, presentations, briefings, and demonstrations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Familiarity and direct experience with Cisco networking products
• Technical knowledge in one or more of the following network fields: Campus, Wireless, Security, Network Automation, Software Defined Networking, Mobility, API Integration, Python or similar programming
• Network infrastructure automation
• VMWare ESXi, including automation
• Linux administration including automation and scripting
• Nginx administration
• Experience with debugging and verification methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with Docker, Django, and/or Proxmox
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
• Experience with formal verification tools
• Experience with emulation
• Excellent communication and strategic planning skills, while being self-motivated with a focus on execution.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.