22 hours ago
Manchester, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead customers from AI use-case ideation through full-scale implementation while maintaining technical and business alignment.
- Align Cisco’s AI stack with ISV and industry partners to deliver integrated end-to-end solutions.
- Architect scalable and secure AI infrastructure environments using Cisco networking, compute, and observability solutions.
- Design, implement, and lead Proof of Value projects in customer environments.
- Partner with product engineering to provide field feedback and influence the product roadmap.
- Represent Cisco at industry events and advise technical architects and C-suite stakeholders.
- Drive technical sales engagements and manage complex deal cycles with enterprise and public-sector customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of systems engineering or solution architecture experience with AI, data center, or cloud infrastructure equipment vendors.
- Demonstrated success in the UK and Ireland enterprise or public-sector market.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and microservices architecture.
- Strong knowledge of networking protocols, security frameworks, and API-driven automation.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences.
- Experience driving technical sales engagements and managing complex deal cycles.
- Preferred: experience with AI/ML infrastructure architecture and protocols, network fabric and software runtime, AI applications and agentic development, Infrastructure as Code, service orchestration, cybersecurity, and infrastructure observability.
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.