7 days ago
Minato, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with assigned enterprise customers.
- Organize customer challenges and technical requirements.
- Develop and propose suitable Cisco solutions and future-state architectures.
- Provide consulting, proposal materials, and customer presentations.
- Conduct and report on hardware demonstrations and proof-of-concept activities.
- Respond to technical inquiries and provide competitive differentiation proposals.
- Collaborate with domestic teams, sales, service, technical support, architecture, and overseas development teams.
- Provide technical leadership for large, multi-department opportunities.
- Support Day 2 operations and post-deployment activities in coordination with the CX organization.
Requirements
- Broad knowledge and experience with enterprise-scale networking, security, cloud, and IT infrastructure.
- At least seven years of professional experience as an IT infrastructure or security engineer.
- Ability to technically lead sales teams and large, cross-functional opportunities.
- English writing and reading communication skills.
- Experience collaborating with global teams.
- Experience using AI to improve daily work efficiency and advance business initiatives.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and proactive customer focus.
- Preferred: global customer presales experience and broad knowledge of Cisco products and solutions.
- Preferred: ability to propose business-oriented transformation beyond traditional IT infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience with technical discussions, presentations, and negotiations in English.
- Preferred: deep AI knowledge or experience proposing and building AI solutions.
- Preferred: programming ability.
- Preferred: CCIE or CISSP certification.
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.