# Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader for the EMEA & APJC Hypershield & Isovalent Hyperspecialist Team

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Manchester
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As the Sr. Solutions Engineering Leader for the EMEA & APJC Hypershield & Isovalent Hyperspecialist Team, you will lead a specialized engineering organization operating like a high-growth start-up.

In this role, you will redefine enterprise defense by championing our AI-native distributed security architecture.

**Responsibilities**

- Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing, diverse team of elite Solution Engineers across EMEA & APJC.

- Partner with Sales and Product leadership to define and complete the technical go-to-market strategy, accelerating early-adopter customer acquisition.

- Serve as an executive technical sponsor, building trusted advisor relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects.

- Champion the end-to-end "See-Try-Buy" lifecycle, optimizing POV velocity, private previews, and multi-architectural proof-of-value trials.

- Act as the strategic field bridge to Engineering, channeling competitive intelligence and technical feature gaps into the product development lifecycle.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- 8+ years of technical pre-sales engineering experience in enterprise network security, cloud security, or data center infrastructure.

- 3+ years of formal people leadership or senior technical mentorship managing geographically distributed teams.

- Deep architectural mastery of micro-segmentation strategies, container security/orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Strong foundational knowledge of modern data center networking, firewalls, distributed dataplanes (eBPF/DPDK), and network segmentation.

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience leading technical 'incubation' or 'start-up' sales motions for innovative enterprise technologies.

- Deep competitive expertise in micro-segmentation and workload security (e.g., Illumio, Guardicore/Akamai, VMware NSX, Palo Alto, Fortinet).

- Familiarity with global regulatory/compliance frameworks (e.g., NIS2, DORA, GDPR, sovereign cloud requirements).

- Working knowledge of DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines, microservices, serverless computing, and CI/CD security controls.

- Regional language proficiencies (e.g., German, French, Spanish, Arabic).

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## Skills

### Required
- micro-segmentation
- container security
- cloud platforms
- data center networking
- firewalls
- distributed dataplanes
- network segmentation
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Cybersecurity
- Information Systems

### Nice to have
- Illumio
- Guardicore/Akamai
- VMware NSX
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
- NIS2
- DORA
- GDPR
- DevOps/DevSecOps
- microservices
- serverless computing
- CI/CD security controls
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Arabic

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