Solutions Engineer- Service Provider Networking

Cisco; Town of North Hempstead (NY); On-site; USD 202,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Solutions Engineer for their Service Provider Networking team. The role involves designing secure network solutions, engaging with customers, and driving innovation in network infrastructures. Ideal candidates will have strong technical skills, excellent communication abilities, and the capability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Routing, Wireless, and Switching deployments.
• Extensive skills in TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF.
• Critical thinking and customer-focused attitude.

Responsibilities

• Form relationships with key decision-makers.
• Showcase Cisco products and solutions.
• Design and configure products to meet customer requirements.

Skills

Networking protocols

Excellent communication

Pre-sales experience

Education

BS/BA (preferably EE/CS)

Tools

Routing

Switching

Wireless

Job description

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Base pay range

$202,200.00/yr - $256,800.00/yr

Meet the Team

The Networking Solutions Engineering team has a passion for technology and a zeal for customer interaction! This is a pre-sales, technical role is passionate about architectural selling covering customers from all verticals and segments in the America’s. You should excel in communicating technical architectures, solutions and products to key decision- makers from Managers to Directors and above. They should be comfortable speaking publicly to both small and large audiences.

Are you passionate about crafting next-generation network solutions for people, applications, and things? Do you feel passionate about crafting a highly secure, intelligent campus and infrastructure that transforms businesses and redesigns the workforce? Do you want to be a part of driving innovative solutions to optimize and modernize the network through advanced observability capabilities, data science, and Artificial Intelligence to provide digital resiliency?

Look no further, your next destination awaits... Join Cisco and help customers redefine their network architectures by applying our premier products, technologies, and solutions.

Your Impact

You will work with the Americas Networking Organization as a Solutions Engineer. You will form relationships with our customer’s key decision- makers, showcase Cisco Networking products and solutions with a focus on Secure networking including Routing, Switching, Wireless, and Automation, lead RFP response(s), set up demonstrations, drive proof of values, explain features and benefits to customers, and design and configure products to meet specific customer requirements.

Keep up to date on networking trends, competitive solutions products and services. You will work with a variety of technologies and will therefore need strong cross-functional teamwork and consultative skills. The capacity to demonstrate technical solutions and capabilities effectively and conduct multi-architectural Proof-of-Concept (PoC) tests is a must. Key areas of responsibility include:

• Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
• Driving demand generation activities
• Enable technology capabilities internally with Portfolio Account Teams and externally with our partners.
• Understanding customer requirements and mapping technical solutions to meet the needs
• Network design
• Deep product and solution knowledge: Product positioning, differentiation across solutions, operational characteristics
• Performing product demo and Proof of Concept (PoC) labs
• Maintaining competitive knowledge to strategically position Cisco’s products and services
• Following market transition and industry trends to anticipate customer needs
• Aligning cross-functionally to various business entities and teams across the company
• Challenger mindset willing to help customers with complex/challenging digital transformation opportunities
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven experience sizing and designing Routing, Wireless and Switching deployments both On-Prem and Cloud Based.
• Extensive skills and knowledge in networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, LISP) network segmentation technologies (VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Pre-sales experience
• Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet
• Requires BS/BA (preferably EE/CS) or equivalent experience
• Can work under pressure with minimum supervision.
• Critical thinking to address customer concerns and to support customer business growth.
• Customer-focused attitude.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• We offer a flexible work from home or office (where Cisco offices are available) option.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• API and programmability knowledge is a plus
• Cisco and non-Cisco Certifications a plus (CCIE, CCDE, CCNP, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
• You should excel in communicating technical architectures, solutions and products to key decision- makers from Managers to Directors and above
• You should be comfortable speaking publicly to both small and large audiences.
  
  

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computer Networking Products

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