Technical Consulting Engineer - Enterprise Switching

Cisco; North Carolina; On-site; USD 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

RSU grants

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Technical Consulting Engineer to apply advanced troubleshooting skills to resolve complex customer issues in Security and Networking architectures.

You will manage integrated solutions in a highly complex environment, leveraging cross-product knowledge and systems thinking. You will mentor peers, contribute to product quality by identifying defects, and use lab environments and diagnostic tools to scale solutions across the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical troubleshooting and providing customer support for enterprise-level network environments.
• Active CCNP Level Certification
• Proficiency in advanced troubleshooting within complex Enterprise networks with proven ability to perform root cause analysis, manage technical escalations effectively, and create clear technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing packet analysis tools, such as Wireshark and TCPdump, to diagnose and resolve technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Apply your technical expertise to conduct advanced troubleshooting and resolve complex customer issues within Security and Networking architectures.
• Collaborate with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to drive issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Mentor peers to foster individual and team development and contribute to product quality by reporting defects and quality escalations.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Troubleshooting

Customer support

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Cross-product knowledge

Education

CCNP Certification

Tools

Wireshark

TCPdump

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 12/03/2026

Meet the Team

This team provides critical assistance to customers' technical support requests by applying technical expertise to conduct advanced troubleshooting and resolve issues. We handle technical problems within specific technologies and architectures, such as Security and Networking, across a broad range of problem complexity. Operating in a highly complex technical environment, we manage increasingly complex and integrated solutions that require deep, cross-product knowledge and systems-level thinking. We collaborate closely with customers, partners, engineering, and internal stakeholders to drive resolution and continuous improvement. Our team contributes to product quality by submitting bugs, defects, and quality escalations to Engineering. Additionally, we utilize and enhance lab environments and digital intellectual capital to deepen expertise, support troubleshooting, and scale solutions across the team, while leveraging AI capabilities, software, automation, and diagnostic tools to support quality and efficiency.

Your Impact

As a Technical Consulting Engineer, you will apply your technical expertise to conduct advanced troubleshooting and resolve complex customer issues within Security and Networking architectures. You will manage integrated solutions in a highly complex technical environment, utilizing deep cross-product knowledge and systems-level thinking. By collaborating with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders, you will drive issue resolution and continuous improvement. You will actively contribute to product quality by identifying and submitting defects and quality escalations to Engineering. Furthermore, you will utilize and enhance lab environments, leverage diagnostic tools and packet analysis, and mentor peers to foster individual and team development.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical troubleshooting and providing customer support for enterprise-level network environments.
• Active CCNP Level Certification
• Proficiency in advanced troubleshooting within complex Enterprise networks with proven ability to perform root cause analysis, manage technical escalations effectively, and create clear technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing packet analysis tools, such as Wireshark and TCPdump, to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Strong cross-product knowledge with the ability to apply systems-level thinking to integrated solutions along with a proven track record of effective customer collaboration and stakeholder management to drive issue resolution.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leveraging AI capabilities, automation, and advanced diagnostic tools to improve troubleshooting efficiency.
• Cisco Routing: Basic understanding of IPv4 routing, static and dynamic routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP), routing tables, and inter-VLAN routing.
• Cisco Switching: Understanding of Layer 2 switching, VLANs, trunking, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), EtherChannel, and Layer 3 switching.
• Cisco VoIP: Basic understanding of Cisco Unified Communications, IP telephony, voice VLANs, QoS, and the fundamentals of how VoIP traffic is handled across an enterprise network.
• Cisco ISE: Basic understanding of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), including 802.1X authentication, RADIUS, TACACS+, authentication policies, and network access control.
• Experience contributing to digital intellectual capital and scaling technical solutions across an organization.

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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $95,800.00 to $126,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$119,600.00 - $174,200.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$103,400.00 - $166,000.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.