Sales Engineering – Cybersecurity (ASEAN)

Our Cybersecurity Sales Engineering team partners with sales, TAC, customer success, and our partner ecosystem to design and deliver Cisco's security architecture across the ASEAN territory , spanning Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Secure Access & Identity, AI Security, XDR, SASE, and Hypershield.

We're looking for an Associate Sales Engineer to join our security SE team as a technical builder. You'll work alongside senior SEs and account teams to take discovered use cases and requirements and turn them into tailored demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, and automated builds that bring a proposed solution to life for the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Translate discovered customer use cases and requirements into working, customized demo environments and proofs of concept
• Build, configure, and script across Cisco's security portfolio , Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Secure Access & Identity, AI Security, XDR, SASE, and Hypershield , to represent real customer scenarios
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agents to automate demo builds, environment setup, and repetitive configuration tasks, shortening the time from requirement to working proof of concept
• Maintain, refresh, and troubleshoot demo/POC environments so they stay reliable and reusable across the team
• Partner closely with senior Sales Engineers to understand the "why" behind a solution design, not just the "what" , and flag technical gaps or better-fit approaches as you find them
• Document builds and configurations so environments can be handed off, reused, or extended by others on the team
• Collaborate cross-functionally with TAC, customer success, and partners when a build surfaces a product gap, bug, or integration question
• Take on a growing share of customer-facing work over time as your product and solution-design depth increases

Requirements:

• A technical background , computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience with 2-3 years of relevant work experience
• Comfortable with programmability: scripting (Python or similar), APIs, automation tools, infrastructure-as-code, or network/security device programmability
• Practical experience using AI tools to design, build, or automate , coding assistants, agent frameworks, or AI-driven workflow automation , and a genuine interest in getting faster and better with them
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and comfort working in ambiguous, not-fully-specified environments
• Good communication skills , you'll need to translate technical decisions to both senior engineers and, eventually, customers
• Curiosity about cybersecurity and a desire to grow into a customer-facing Sales Engineering role

Nice to have:

• Exposure to networking or security fundamentals (firewalls, identity/access, SASE, XDR concepts)
• Any Cisco, cloud, or security certification (or active pursuit of one)
• Experience with virtualization/lab platforms (e.g., dCloud, VMs, containers) used for building demo environments
• Prior internship, lab, or project experience building POCs, demos, or automation tooling

Benefits:

• A structured path from technical builder into full Sales Engineering , you'll grow alongside senior SEs, not stay boxed into one lane
• Direct exposure to Cisco's security portfolio and to how real deals get won, from requirements to demo to close
• Latitude to bring AI-driven tooling into how the team builds , this role is as much about improving how we build demos as building them
• A small team where your work is immediately visible and valued, across a fast-growing ASEAN cybersecurity territory