Description
Join Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco's integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof.
As a Technical Marketing Engineering Leader on the Cisco Validated team, you will help turn Cisco's One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-portfolio validation efforts for integrated Cisco solutions aligned to Cisco's strategic priorities.
- Define validation scope, success criteria, evidence requirements, and repeatability expectations for assigned initiatives.
- Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot complex lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
- Partner with Business Unit product managers, Business Unit TMEs, Architectural Sponsors, field architects, sales teams, and Cisco Validated peers to ensure validation outcomes are technically credible and field-relevant.
- Identify integration gaps, product limitations, operational considerations, and readiness concerns early enough to inform product, field, and leadership decisions.
- Produce clear technical evidence, lab notes, configuration artifacts, test results, known issues, and documentation inputs for validated outcomes.
- Mentor developing TMEs and external partner resources by setting technical direction, reviewing evidence quality, and reinforcing repeatable validation practices.
Technical Scope:
- Secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, policy, assurance, and observability.
- Security architectures, secure access, threat detection, identity, firewall, VPN, and zero trust concepts.
- Cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, workload connectivity, high-performance fabrics, and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Collaboration platforms, user experience, application behavior, and integrated workflow considerations.
- Digital resilience, operational continuity, telemetry, troubleshooting, incident readiness, and repeatable recovery patterns.
- Lab validation methods, performance testing, interoperability testing, evidence capture, and technical documentation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 12+ years of hands-on technical experience designing, implementing, validating, troubleshooting, or supporting complex enterprise, service provider, cloud, security, collaboration, or data center technology environments.
- Experience in networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies, with depth in at least one major technical domain.
- Experience leading technical work across cross-functional stakeholders, including product, engineering, field, sales, or customer-facing teams.
- Experience translating ambiguous technical or business objectives into scoped validation plans, evidence requirements, findings, and field-ready outputs.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)
- Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer
Salary Range: $169,300.00 - $237,200.00