# Customer Proof of Concepts Engineer

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

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## Description

### Job Summary

The Proof-of-Concept (POC) Specialist is a Systems Engineer (SE) responsible for the end-to-end development, planning, design, delivery, and coordination of Customer Proof of Concept Labs, primarily focused on Enterprise Networking and Nexus (NX) technologies, but may include other Cisco technologies.

### Key Responsibilities

- Project Management (10%): Identify, prioritize, and organize project-related tasks, strategize and communicate project goals and objectives, and ensure effective status reporting.

- Engineering (50%): Design, develop, document, and deliver diverse POC content, collaborate with stakeholders to extract requirements, create design and test plans, and lead POC engineering efforts.

- Platform Design (20%): Document and plan projects thoroughly, utilize standard design tools and templates, and present and justify designs to peer review groups.

- Support (10%): Serve as the first point of contact for POC escalations, collaborate with stakeholders to ensure successful POC delivery, and manage escalations.

- Other Duties (5%): Act as a liaison with third-party developers and independently develop content as needed.

### Candidate Requirements

- CCNP/CCIE certification or equivalent experience.

- Strong background in Routing, Switching, and Security protocols.

- Experience with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA), and cloud networking.

- Familiarity with virtual infrastructures and test tools.

- Proven project delivery, project management, and time management skills.

### Additional Desired Skills

- Basic programming and scripting skills.

- Basic web development and scripting knowledge.

### Qualifications and Competencies

- Strong self-management and time management skills.

- Sense of urgency and adaptability to shifting team demands.

- Flexibility to handle a wide range of tasks and rapidly switch between projects.

- Analytical skills to use source materials effectively.

- Excellent communication skills.

### Reporting Structure

- Reports to: SE Operations Manager

- Works Closely With: Content Development Team, Project Management Team, Practice Leads, Automation/UI Development Team, Technical Writing Team, dCloud Social Media Specialist, Platform Team, and NetOps Team

- Direct Reports: None

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## Skills

### Required
- Routing
- Switching
- Security protocols
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- BGP
- MPLS
- DMVPN
- IPSec
- NAT
- Trustsec
- LISP
- VXLAN
- EVPN
- 802.1x
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA)
- Cloud networking
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Microsoft Office365
- VMware vCenter
- Spirent
- Cyberflood
- Avalanche
- Ixia
- Keysight
- WAN emulation

### Nice to have
- Go
- Python
- Ruby
- PowerShell
- XML
- SQL
- Basic web development
- Scripting knowledge

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