Senior Solutions Engineering Leader - AI Security GTM

Cisco Systems, Inc; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader for the EMEA & APJC Hypershield & Isovalent Hyperspecialist Team.

You will lead a specialized engineering organization operating like a high-growth startup and shape enterprise security go-to-market strategy. You will recruit, inspire, and manage a geographically dispersed team of Solution Engineers, driving rapid market adoption and building trusted relationships with CISOs and CIOs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of pre-sales engineering experience in enterprise security or data center infra.
• 3+ years of formal people leadership with distributed teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/EE/Cybersecurity or related field.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead, and develop a geographically dispersed team of Solution Engineers.
• Define and execute the technical go-to-market strategy for Hypershield and Isovalent.
• Serve as executive sponsor to CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects.
• Drive See-Try-Buy lifecycle, POV velocity, and multi-architecture trials.
• Bridge field needs to Engineering for feature gaps and product roadmap input.

Skills

Strategic leadership

People management

Executive relationship building

Pre-sales leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Cybersecurity

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems is seeking a Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader for the EMEA & APJC Hypershield & Isovalent Hyperspecialist Team.

You will lead a specialized engineering organization operating like a high-growth startup and shape enterprise security go-to-market strategy. You will recruit, inspire, and manage a geographically dispersed team of Solution Engineers, driving rapid market adoption and building trusted relationships with CISOs and CIOs.