Senior Solutions Engineering Leader — Remote (EMEA/APJC)

Cisco Systems, Inc; Manchester; Remote; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Manchester, United Kingdom, and other global locations, seeks a Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader to guide a dispersed team of Solution Engineers across EMEA & APJC focused on Hypershield and Isovalent hyperspecialist initiatives.

You will recruit, mentor, and partner with Sales and Product to accelerate early-adopter adoption, influence roadmaps, and build trusted relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects, driving See-Try-Buy success and value realization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales engineering experience in enterprise network security, cloud security, or data center infrastructure.
• 3+ years of formal people leadership or senior technical mentorship managing geographically distributed teams.
• Deep architectural mastery of micro-segmentation strategies, container security/orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong foundational knowledge of modern data center networking, firewalls, distributed dataplanes (eBPF/DPDK), and network segmentation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing, diverse team of elite Solution Engineers across EMEA & APJC.
• Partner with Sales and Product leadership to define and complete the technical go-to-market strategy, accelerating early-adopter customer acquisition.
• Serve as an executive technical sponsor, building trusted advisor relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects.
• Champion the end-to-end 'See-Try-Buy' lifecycle, optimizing POV velocity, private previews, and multi-architectural proof-of-value trials.
• Act as the strategic field bridge to Engineering, channeling competitive intelligence and technical feature gaps into the product development lifecycle.

Skills

Pre-sales engineering

People leadership

Enterprise security

Strategic thinking

CISO advisory

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/EE/Cybersecurity/IS

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Manchester, United Kingdom, and other global locations, seeks a Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader to guide a dispersed team of Solution Engineers across EMEA & APJC focused on Hypershield and Isovalent hyperspecialist initiatives.

You will recruit, mentor, and partner with Sales and Product to accelerate early-adopter adoption, influence roadmaps, and build trusted relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects, driving See-Try-Buy success and value realization.