SASE Solutions Engineer

Cisco Systems Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems Inc is seeking a SASE Solutions Engineer to serve as a trusted technical advisor for EMEA customers, guiding enterprise transformation across networking, security, cloud, and identity. You will develop multi-year roadmaps and lead demonstrations and workshops to validate value, security, and performance.

You will architect solutions spanning Cisco SD-WAN, SSE, SASE, Zero Trust, identity, and observability, ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes and accelerating adoption

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated experience designing, installing and maintaining LAN/WAN and security technologies.
• Experience leading technical sales cycles.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to EMEA customers across networking, security, cloud, and identity.
• Drive enterprise transformation with multi-year roadmaps toward cloud-delivered SASE architectures.
• Lead technical demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-value engagements to show security, UX, and efficiency improvements.
• Architect cross-domain solutions spanning Cisco SD-WAN, SSE, SASE, Zero Trust, and observability.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to feed customer feedback into future capabilities.
• Engage with partners and drive joint customer engagements to expand adoption.

Skills

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Sales cycles

LAN/WAN security architecture

Job description

We are a highly collaborative and inclusive team that values customer focus, integrity, teamwork, and shared success. You will work at the forefront of enterprise transformation, helping shape the future of secure connectivity while collaborating closely with customers, partners, product teams, and engineering. Your Impact As a SASE Solutions Engineer, you will be a trusted technical advisor to EMEA customers, driving enterprise transformation across networking, security, cloud, and identity. You will:

• Drive Strategic Architecture: Develop multi-year technical roadmaps that guide customers from legacy networking and security environments toward unified, cloud-delivered SASE architectures.
• Lead Executive Alignment: Translate business priorities such as secure hybrid work, cloud and SaaS adoption, and multi-cloud transformation into actionable networking and security strategies for senior technology leaders.
• Accelerate Solution Adoption: Lead technical demonstrations, architectural workshops, and proof-of-value engagements that demonstrate measurable improvements in security, user experience, operational efficiency, and total cost.
• Build Cross-Domain Solutions: Architect solutions spanning Cisco SD-WAN, SSE, SASE, Zero Trust, networking, security, identity, and observability, aligning technology decisions with customer business outcomes.
• Influence Innovation: Collaborate with product management and engineering to bring customer and market feedback into future product capabilities and architecture.
• Enable the Ecosystem: Work with strategic partners through technical enablement, joint customer engagements, and sales cycles to expand adoption and market share.
• Demonstrated professional experience in the design, installation, and maintenance of Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN) and security technology components and architectures.
• Documented experience implementing security protocols as they apply to network infrastructure and enterprise security architectures.
• Professional experience working with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment models., 5+ years of experience as a Technical Sales Architect (TSA) or Solutions Engineer, successfully leading technical sales cycles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior executives and diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical and sales-related challenges in a timely, effective manner.

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