Senior Federal Solutions Architect — Zero Trust

Cisco Systems, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 219,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer for the Federal Civilian team in the U.S. You will partner with agency leadership to design resilient, automated architectures that support modernization and mission success.

The role focuses on trusted technical advisory, secure network design, PoV demonstrations, and proposal leadership, with emphasis on modern infrastructure tooling and federal compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or senior enterprise consulting experience.
• Active professional or expert-level Cisco certification (CCNP Enterprise/Security or CCIE).
• Hands-on pre-sales architecture expertise across core Enterprise Router/Switch and SD-WAN.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Cisco Integrated Security and Zero Trust solutions (ISE, Secure Firewall/FTD, Duo, Umbrella, SASE/SSE).
• U.S. Citizenship required to comply with federal customer site access and security clearance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical authority and pre-sales architect for designated U.S. Federal Civilian Agencies.
• Design, validate, and defend end-to-end network and security architectures meeting federal mandates (OMB M-22-09, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP).
• Lead PoV trials, live demos, and architectural bake-offs to prove Cisco value in federal environments.
• Create technical specs, diagrams, and compliance matrices for RFIs/RFPs and task orders.
• Educate federal teams on IaC, REST APIs, Python tooling, and telemetry frameworks for faster ops.

Skills

7+ years of pre-sales/systems-engineer

Active Cisco certification (CCNP/CCIE)

Pre-sales architecture across Router/S

Cisco Security & Zero Trust (ISE, Fire

US Citizenship for federal site access

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE/IS

Tools

Catalyst 9000

Nexus 9000 NX-OS

Catalyst 8000 SD-WAN

BGP

OSPF

EVPN/VXLAN

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer for the Federal Civilian team in the U.S. You will partner with agency leadership to design resilient, automated architectures that support modernization and mission success.

The role focuses on trusted technical advisory, secure network design, PoV demonstrations, and proposal leadership, with emphasis on modern infrastructure tooling and federal compliance.