1 day ago
Base Salary
$209k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical decisions and lead breakdown sessions, competitive bake-offs, and sophisticated proofs of value.
- Architect and validate complex customer solutions across the relevant technical domain.
- Present product vision, strategy, and technical details to engineers, executives, customers, and partners.
- Partner with Cisco ecosystem members and Account Managers on strategic opportunities.
- Mentor and enable the broader Solutions Engineering community and develop shared technical protocols.
- Provide customer and market feedback to Cisco engineering and business units to influence product direction.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in pre-sales engineering or a comparable deep technical role such as professional services, security analysis, or site reliability engineering.
- At least 5 years of broad and deep technical knowledge in security, observability, event management, or network management.
- Experience building positive customer and partner relationships.
- At least 5 years of communication and presentation experience with internal or external customers.
- Preferred experience includes observability or security pre-sales, RFX completion, competitive analysis, positioning, and competitive bake-offs.
- Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP are preferred.
- Strong understanding of automation, APIs, and programmability within the relevant domain is preferred.
- Thought leadership experience such as public speaking, technical blogging, or whitepaper writing is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $209,100.00 to $275,100.00, with additional location-specific ranges listed for certain U.S. states.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; basic life insurance; and possible restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid time away includes holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible time off depending on classification, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- Employees may be eligible for annual bonuses or performance-based sales incentive compensation under Cisco plans.
- The role can be performed within the Ohio Valley.
Tech Stack
Splunk
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.