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From the employer's careers site First seen 12 Nov 2026

Senior Solutions Engineer

Cisco Irvine, California senior full-time

Salary

$218,600 to $286,100 per year

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Description

You will join the Global Enterprise (CGEM) APJC team at Cisco, which supports the company's largest and most strategic global enterprise customers headquartered in the APJC region.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, connecting customer business priorities and complex technical requirements with secure, scalable solutions across Cisco's portfolio.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Engaging directly with customer technical executives, architects, engineering teams, and decision-makers to understand business priorities and establish trusted-advisor relationships.
  • Translating business and operational priorities into technical strategies and cross-architecture solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Leading customer conversations around AI strategy and AI-ready infrastructure, connecting data center, networking, security, observability, and automation capabilities to evolving AI use cases and business outcomes.
  • Collaborating with global and regional account teams to develop account strategies, identify opportunities, and advance key customer engagements across the Americas.
  • Leading technical discovery, architectural design, presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concept activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in solutions engineering, pre-sales engineering, technical consulting, or a comparable customer-facing technology role.
  • Experience designing and positioning enterprise solutions across multiple technology areas, such as AI, Enterprise Networking, Security, Splunk, Data Center, Cloud, Automation, IoT, and Collaboration.
  • Experience leading technical discovery, solution-design presentations, demonstrations, workshops, or POC activities for large enterprise customers.
  • Experience translating customer business priorities into technical strategies and engaging with senior and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Cisco certification such as CCIE or an equivalent industry-recognized technical certification.
  • BS/BA (EE/CS) or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience designing and positioning AI-ready infrastructure, including data center networking, compute connectivity, security, observability, or automation capabilities that support AI workloads.

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Paid time away (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees)
  • Flexible vacation time off program
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • CCIE
  • Service Provider technologies
  • AI-ready infrastructure

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