# Systems Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: McLean, Virginia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,600.00 - $286,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will join a dynamic, customer-obsessed Systems Engineering team at Cisco, dedicated to driving architectural innovation, enterprise transformation, and strategic growth across high-impact accounts in the Mid-Atlantic and East regions.

As a Systems Engineer, you will be the primary technical sales influencer, collaborating with account teams and connected sales specialists to shape customer technology roadmaps, accelerate deal velocity, and ensure long-term customer success.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop multi-year strategic plans for enterprise customers, integrating Cisco's cross-architecture portfolio into client business transformation strategies.

- Deepen expertise across Cisco's portfolio by integrating extensive domain knowledge with cross-architectural solutions, shaping senior executives' technical strategy and business vision.

- Serve as the primary technical advisor and trusted influencer for IT decision-makers and Line of Business (LOB) leaders, translating complex business needs into actionable, resilient technical requirements.

- Lead interactive technical demonstrations and architectural whiteboarding sessions that showcase how Cisco solutions deliver business outcomes and successfully displace competitors.

- Spend significant selling time landing new opportunities and expanding within existing accounts, taking the lead on moving deals across the technical sales lifecycle in lockstep with Account Executives.

- Provide active feedback to Cisco Business Entities (BEs) and sales leadership regarding strategic customer needs, market opportunities, product enhancements, and competitive tactics.

- Direct virtual SE teams and extended partner sales resources toward continuous improvement, overseeing technical enablement and demand-generation programs across the territory.

- Demonstrate technical agility by adjusting pre-sales strategies in response to market disruptions, emerging technologies, and evolving customer priorities.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 7+ years of related experience in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, solutions architecture, or senior enterprise technical consulting.

- Strong foundational and hands-on pre-sales architecture knowledge across Cisco's core portfolio, including Enterprise Networking (Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki, SD-WAN) and Integrated Security (ISE, Secure Firewall, Duo, Umbrella, SASE).

- Proven track record of partnering with Account Executives to qualify, design, and close multi-million-dollar technology deals while displacing key competitors.

- Demonstrated ability to lead customer-facing engagements, technical discovery workshops, and architectural whiteboarding sessions with IT leaders and executive stakeholders.

- Solid understanding of the end-to-end technical sales process, including RFP/RFI responses, Proof of Value (PoV) execution, and competitive differentiation strategies.

- Ability to work in a hybrid, client-facing model across the McLean, VA / Research Triangle Park, NC corridor and travel as needed for customer and partner meetings.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree (with 7+ years of related experience), Master's degree (with 6+ years of related experience), or PhD (with 3+ years of related experience) in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

- Active Cisco Professional or Expert level certification in good standing (CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, or CCIE).

- Hands-on experience with Network Automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Python scripting, REST APIs, or Ansible.

- Familiarity with Full-Stack Observability (FSO), telemetry, and network assurance platforms (Cisco ThousandEyes, Splunk, Catalyst Center).

- Knowledge of public sector, government, or regulated enterprise compliance baselines and security architectures (NIST SP 800-53, Zero Trust, FedRAMP).

**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

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

**Salary Range:** $218,600.00 - $286,100.00

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## Skills

### Required
- Cisco
- Enterprise Networking
- Integrated Security
- Python scripting
- REST APIs
- Ansible

### Nice to have
- Network Automation
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- Full-Stack Observability (FSO)
- telemetry
- network assurance platforms

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