# Senior Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Fulton, Maryland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,600.00 to $286,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will join Cisco's Federal Civilian Systems Engineering team, one of the most elite and respected systems engineering organizations in the IT industry. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, your core mission encompasses five key strategic pillars:

- Strategic Technical Advisory & Customer Advocacy: Serve as the primary technical authority, trusted advisor, and pre-sales architecture lead for designated U.S. Federal Civilian Agencies.

- Federal Architecture & Zero Trust Design: Design, validate, and defend end-to-end multi-tier network and security architectures complying with Federal mandates.

- Proof of Value (PoV) & Competitive Bake-Offs: Lead hands-on technical Proof of Value trials, live demonstrations, and architectural bake-offs.

- RFI/RFP Proposal Leadership & Deal Strategy: Author technical specifications, architectural diagrams, and compliance matrices for complex federal RFIs, RFPs, and task orders.

- Network Automation & Operational Modernization: Educate federal engineering teams on modern Infrastructure-as-Code, REST APIs, Python tooling, and telemetry frameworks.

The team covers a broad portfolio of cabinet-level and independent federal agencies, recognized for deep technical mastery and an elite network of decorated CCNP and CCIE practitioners.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 7+ years of related technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or senior enterprise consulting experience supporting complex network architectures.

- Active professional or expert-level Cisco certification in good standing (CCNP Enterprise / Security or CCIE).

- Hands-on pre-sales architecture expertise across core Enterprise Route/Switch and SD-WAN.

- Demonstrated proficiency in Cisco Integrated Security and Zero Trust solutions.

- U.S. Citizenship required.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

- Active Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, Routing & Switching, or Security).

- Direct experience supporting U.S. Federal Civilian Government Agencies.

- Experience with Full-Stack Observability and Assurance platforms.

- In-depth understanding of Federal Cloud Security baselines and compliance standards.

**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 (holidays, vacation time, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

**Salary Range:** $218,600.00 to $286,100.00

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco
- systems engineering
- network architectures
- security
- Zero Trust

### Nice to have
- Cloud Security
- Full-Stack Observability
- Assurance platforms
- Federal Cloud Security

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