Consulting Engineer | Service Provider + R&S | 5+ years (Open)

Cisco; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Bengaluru seeks a Consulting Engineer to join the Customer Experience team. You will drive lifecycle services, engage with customers, and balance multiple projects.

You will mentor other engineers and contribute to technical content and solutions leveraging Cisco analytics and AI-driven approaches. Role involves collaboration with Cisco Engineering, delivering value, reducing risks, and enabling customers to adopt innovative technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field.
• 5+ years in technical consulting, design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with routing and switching protocols (IGP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, STP, RSTP, VTP, VSS, vPC, VDC, MSTP, LACP, VLAN, VXLAN-EVPN).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and Cisco routing/switching platforms (ISR 1800/1900/2900/3900/4000; ASR 1000; Cat 9k, 6500, 6800, 4500, Nexus 9k, 7k).
• Knowledge of Layer 2/3 protocols and R&S technologies (IPv4/IPv6, STP/RSTP, EVPN, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, QoS, Multicast).
• Knowledge of architectures like CEN and MPLS.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience on XR-based platforms ASR9k and NCS55xx.
• Knowledge of overlay technologies MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Engages with customers to create value and deliver outcomes across the lifecycle.
• Provide Day-2 support on Cisco products and solutions leveraging AI and automation.
• Demonstrates expertise across technologies to benefit a broad customer base.
• Serves as a focal point for proactive problem resolution across Cisco technologies.
• Leads strategy and optimization of Cisco services aligned with customer goals.
• Delivers technical content and guidance to drive solution adoption and customer success.
• Creates customer-facing documentation aligned with CX standards.
• Leverages AI/automation to enhance delivery efficiency and outcomes.
• Contributes to knowledge sharing and development of digital assets.

Skills

Routing & Switching

Networking fundamentals

Cisco platforms (ISR/ASR/Nexus)

Overlay technologies (MPLS L2VPN L3VPN

Scripting/Automation (Python/Ansible)

CCIE preferred

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Python

Ansible

GoLang

Splunk

Job description

Meet the Team

Our Consulting Engineers are an integral part of the Customer Experience (CX) team delivering Lifecycle Services to our customers! We combine the power of Cisco Analytics and Knowledge with the outstanding technical expertise and consulting (that's you) to drive value, innovation, and adoption in our customer's network. We help them to reduce risk, drive innovation, and enhance their network to meet business objectives. We are the customer's trusted advisor and guide, helping the customer understand their network, reduce risks, and take advantage of the technology. We work closely with Cisco Engineering to advocate for innovation for our customer and as a liaison, share what is coming with our customers to help them be the groundbreakers of technology.

Job Description

Our Consulting Engineers are an integral part of the Customer Experience (CX) team delivering Lifecycle Services to our customers! We combine the power of Cisco Analytics and Knowledge with the outstanding technical expertise and consulting (that's you) to drive value, innovation, and adoption in our customer's network. We help them to reduce risk, drive innovation, and enhance their network to meet business objectives. We are the customer's trusted advisor and guide, helping the customer understand their network, reduce risks, and take advantage of the technology. We work closely with Cisco Engineering to advocate for innovation for our customer and as a liaison, share what is coming with our customers to help them be the groundbreakers of technology.

Your Impact

This role requires you to be self-motivated, flexible and to be able to balance multiple projects at the same time. As a Consulting Engineer, you will help drive the effort to transform our current and future architecture for our customers. In addition to day-to-day customer activities, training and mentoring other engineers will be required. Bring your creative solutions and be an asset to our team!

Responsibilities

• Engages with customers to create value and deliver outcomes, adoption, and renewals. Proactively collaborates cross-functionally teams to ensure a unified customer experience across the lifecycle
• Provide Day-2 support on Cisco products and solutions for customers, leveraging technical expertise, AI and automation, strategic guidance, and innovative solutions to ensure optimal performance and customer satisfaction
• Demonstrates expertise across technologies, developing specialized insight in a sector or domain (e.g., Healthcare, BFSI) to benefit a broad customer base, and implementing Resilience and Security by design into all deliverables
• Serves as a focal point for proactive problem resolution, providing timely support across Cisco technologies
• Leads strategy, and optimization of Cisco services and solutions, ensuring alignment with customer goals
• Develops and delivers technical content and guidance that supports customer engagements, drives solution adoption, and takes end-to-end responsibility for the success of customer solutions and leads collaboration across internal teams and external stakeholders
• Creates customer-facing documentation, ensuring deliverables are technically sound, clearly articulated, and aligned with CX standards
• Leverages AI and automation to enhance delivery efficiency, innovation and customer outcomes, while also increasing personal productivity and focus on high-impact work
• Contributes to knowledge sharing and the development of digital intellectual capital, including documentation templates, automation artifacts and other assets that improve Cisco delivery methodology and processes
• Builds leadership presence through regular customer engagements and by participating in industry events such as Cisco Live and IETF forums

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master's degree in a technical field, such as Computer Science, Information Technology or a similar field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical consulting, design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience and good knowledge in routing and switching protocols like: IGP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, STP, RSTP, VTP, VSS, vPC, VDC, MSTP, LACP, VLAN,VXLAN-EVPN etc
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and experience in Cisco Routing and switching Platforms like Cisco ISR 1800/1900/2900/3900/4000 Series routers, ASR 1000 , Cat 9k,6500, 6800, 4500, Nexus 9k,7k.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience of L2 / L3 networking protocols and R&S technologies (IPv4/IPv6, STP/RSTP, EVPN, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, QoS, Multicast).
• Knowledge of Architecture's like CEN and MPLS.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience on XR based platforms ASR9k and NCS55xx etc.
• Has knowledge of overlay technologies like MPLS, L2VPN and L3VPN.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, ability to communicate technology strategy and architecture approach to engineers, executives, and Cisco customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to influence, motivate and work in a highly cross-functional matrix environment to drive outcomes based plans, programs and execution.
• Prior experience of conducting customer workshops, High level and low level network design experience would be preferred.
• Experience in ND/NDFC/UCS products is preferred
• AL/ML and Network automation skills preferred (Python/ Ansible/ GoLang/ Splunk)
• CCIE is preferred

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.