# Partner Systems Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an energetic and self-driven Partner Systems Engineer to join our Germany-based team. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor, driving Cisco preference through proactive enablement, solution design, and relationship management.

As a technical field sales professional, you will partner closely with Partner Account Executives (PAEs) to drive partner-led bookings, pipeline acceleration, and competitive wins in the field. By combining hands-on technical expertise with consultative enablement, you will help scale Cisco’s market reach, position our portfolio competitively, and accelerate partner practice development.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Solution Architecture & Design: Translate partner and customer business requirements into robust technical solutions, leveraging the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio (with a focus on Secure Networking, Collaboration, and AI-ready infrastructure).

- Partner Enablement & Practice Development: Contribute to the technical track of the Partner Account Plan. Equip partner technical teams with the skills, blueprints, and battle cards needed to independently qualify, design, and close opportunities.

- Joint Solution Co-Creation: Collaborate with partners to integrate Cisco technologies with partner services and intellectual property (IP), creating differentiated, high-value offerings.

- Demonstrations & Solution Validation: Guide partners through solution validation, leveraging Cisco dCloud, interactive labs, and proof-of-concept (POC) environments to showcase technical superiority.

- Cross-Architecture Expansion: Proactively identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities within the partner’s pipeline and installed base to drive quarterly technology adoption.

- Competitive Defense & Positioning: Equip partners with competitive insights and differentiation strategies to successfully defend and win Cisco proposals in competitive bids.

- One Cisco Collaboration: Partner closely with Cisco Portfolio SEs and Account Teams to present a unified "One Cisco" technical front, while gathering partner field insights to share with internal stakeholders.

- Event & Community Leadership: Represent Cisco at regional partner webinars, technical workshops, hackathons, and community forums across Germany.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 4–6+ years of technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or technical consulting experience in the networking/IT industry.

- Demonstrable expertise in core networking domains (Routing, Switching, Wireless) and fundamentals of Security (Firewalls, Zero Trust/ISE) or Data Center / Cloud infrastructure.

- Proven experience engaging with channel partners, systems integrators, or enterprise technical teams and decision-makers.

- Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to deliver engaging technical workshops and solution demos.

- Self-driven mindset with a structured approach to building relationships, formulating account plans, and executing independently within the German market.

- Ability and willingness to travel (up to 40–50%) to support partner engagements, workshops, and regional activities across Germany.

- Fluent/Native language skills in German and English (written and verbal).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cisco CCNP/CCNA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Expert, or equivalent).

- Practical knowledge of Cisco’s Secure Networking portfolio (Catalyst, Meraki, Hybrid Mesh Firewalls, Secure Routers) or Workplace Experience / Collaboration solutions.

- Understanding of modern IT trends, such as AI infrastructure networking requirements, observability, or API-driven automation.

- Experience utilizing Cisco dCloud or building lab proof-of-concept environments for partner/customer demonstrations.

- Familiarity with the German partner ecosystem and 1-Tier / 2-Tier distribution models.

## Skills

### Required
- Cisco
- Secure Networking
- Collaboration
- AI-ready infrastructure
- Routing
- Switching
- Wireless
- Security
- Firewalls
- Zero Trust/ISE
- Data Center / Cloud infrastructure
- German
- English

### Nice to have
- Cisco CCNP/CCNA
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Expert
- Catalyst
- Meraki
- Hybrid Mesh Firewalls
- Secure Routers
- Workplace Experience / Collaboration solutions
- AI infrastructure networking requirements
- observability
- API-driven automation

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