# Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Houston, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,100.00 to $275,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a proactive, highly technical, and AI-first Solutions Engineer to join our Commercial Sales team in the Houston, TX metro market.

As a Solutions Engineer (SE), you will partner directly with an Account Executive to co-own account strategy, translate complex architectural concepts into clear business value, and build deep trust with customer stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead high-impact technical engagements such as discovery workshops, custom solution demos, and Proofs of Value (POVs)

- Leverage custom agents and automated workflows to accelerate work, uncover deep customer insights, and demonstrate real-world value

- Collaborate across regional teams, architecture specialists, and channel partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions

Minimum Qualifications:

- 7+ years of network engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing solutions architecture experience

- IT Infrastructure proficiency across enterprise networking, datacenter, and security platforms

- Active industry certifications (e.g., Cisco CCNA/CCNP, AWS/Azure, Security, or equivalent industry-recognized credentials)

Preferred Qualifications:

- Agentic AI Proficiency: Active, daily user of modern AI platforms with practical experience creating AI applications, building agents, and designing automated workflows

- Executive Presence & Discovery Mastery: Outstanding discovery, presentation, and storytelling skills with a natural ability to teach, simplify complex topics, and influence executive decision-makers

- Growth Mindset: A proactive, self-directed drive for continuous learning to stay ahead of rapid AI advancements and emerging technology shifts

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

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year

- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday

- Paid year-end holiday shutdown

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- network engineering
- technical consulting
- solutions architecture
- enterprise networking
- datacenter
- security platforms
- Cisco CCNA/CCNP
- AWS/Azure

### Nice to have
- Agentic AI Proficiency
- Executive Presence & Discovery Mastery
- Growth Mindset

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