# Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $266,100.00 - $342,900.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our Global Enterprise Team is seeking a Solutions Engineer (SE) to work as a trusted advisor and partner to top Enterprise Organisations.

You will be a member of a customer Account Team in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco product solutions, setting up demonstrations, explaining features and benefits to customers, and designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Collaborating with Account Managers, Product Specialists, and other teams to present solutions and support overall architecture development for global customers

- Providing solution and architectural perspectives across the Cisco product portfolio

- Acting in a consultative fashion and becoming a trusted technical advisor for the account team and customers

- Keeping up-to-date on Cisco innovations and relevant competitors' solutions, products, and services

- Assisting with the development and execution of formal sales plans and requests for proposals (RFP) for assigned accounts

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- 7+ years of related experience in technical sales, pre-sales, or client-facing consulting roles

- Knowledge of baseline SE/SA skills and in-depth knowledge in at least one adjacent technology, including Enterprise Networking, Data Center, Collaboration, Cybersecurity, or Route/Switch/Wireless

- Expertise in Cisco solutions, competitors, and associated technologies in the overall IT market

- Excellent technical consulting skills, including the ability to define trade-offs, ask probing questions, and incorporate Cisco solutions into a broader technology environment

Preferred qualifications include:

- Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand customer drivers and frame Cisco offerings in terms of business and mission value

- Conversant in AI infrastructure and IT use cases

- Strong knowledge of Cisco technologies, including switching, wireless, routing, data centers, and security

- Excellent presentation, communication, and technical consulting skills

In terms of benefits, Cisco offers:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away, including 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

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's 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

The starting salary range for this position is $266,100.00 to $342,900.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco product solutions
- Enterprise Networking
- Data Center
- Collaboration
- Cybersecurity
- Route/Switch/Wireless
- Technical sales
- Pre-sales
- Client-facing consulting

### Nice to have
- AI infrastructure
- IT use cases
- Cisco technologies
- Switching
- Wireless
- Routing
- Data centers
- Security

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