Description
Solutions Engineer – Cloud & AI Infrastructure
As a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, you will partner with Account Executives and sales teams to understand customer priorities, identify opportunities, and shape technical strategies. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners across data center networking, compute, and AI infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead technical discovery, solution design, architecture discussions, demonstrations, and presentations.
- Translate customer business and technical requirements into scalable, differentiated Cisco solutions.
- Develop end-to-end architectures leveraging Cisco's portfolio and relevant technology ecosystems.
- Contribute technical insights to account planning, opportunity development, cross-sell, up-sell, and competitive strategies.
- Stay current on emerging trends across data center networking, compute, and AI infrastructure and translate insights into customer opportunities.
- Collaborate with portfolio teams, technical specialists, partners, and sales stakeholders to drive customer outcomes.
- Support customer workshops, partner engagements, enablement sessions, and industry events.
- Travel as required for customer, partner, and Cisco engagements across India and internationally.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of technical presales, solutions engineering, or relevant hands-on infrastructure experience in data center networking, compute, storage, and integration.
- Deep knowledge and practical experience with switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g., Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation).
- Solid understanding of data center networking design fundamentals across traditional 3-tier architecture, VXLAN EVPN, Software Defined Network, and Data Center Interconnect.
- Solid understanding of network security in data center including design and implementation of multi-tenancy, N-S/E-W firewall, and microsegmentation.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to deliver engaging demos, Proof-of-Concept, workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on infrastructure and modernization topics.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with the Cisco data center portfolio (Nexus/ACI, UCS, Intersight, HyperFabric) or comparable competitive platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-ready infrastructure: GPU compute, high-performance fabrics (RoCE/InfiniBand), AI/ML reference architectures (e.g., Cisco + NVIDIA), and storage for AI workloads.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE Data Center, VMware VCP, CKA/CKAD, or major cloud associate/professional certs).
What We Offer:
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.