2 days ago
Base Salary
$219k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand SLED customers’ business and technical challenges and develop technical strategies positioning Cisco solutions.
- Design and implement solutions for K–12, higher education, and local government customers.
- Collaborate with partners, architecture teams, and the CX organization to drive solution adoption and optimization.
- Partner with the Account Manager on discovery, demonstrations, technical deliverables, and pipeline development.
- Build customer relationships through regular in-person meetings and ongoing non-transactional engagement.
- Stay current on industry trends and competitive strategies.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a customer-facing field-sales engineering or network engineering role.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with Cisco networking, security, collaboration, or cloud technologies.
- Proven record of consistently exceeding sales quotas.
- Preferred: CCNP, CCDP, or similar vendor certification.
- Preferred: knowledge of SDN, AI/ML, DevOps, and cloud solutions including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Preferred: proficiency with Python, RESTCONF, NETCONF, YANG Suite, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with IOS-XE, Firepower, Meraki, NX-OS, ACI, and NDFC.
- Preferred: strong technical presentation skills for technical, non-technical, and C-level audiences.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days, subject to applicable policies.
- Quota-based sales incentive compensation may be paid in addition to base salary.
- Application window expected to close October 5, 2026; the role covers Massachusetts and Connecticut, with location-specific compensation determined during hiring.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.