Description
Cisco is seeking a Solutions Engineer (SE) with Enterprise Networking, Data Center, Collaboration, Security, Automation, and Cloud background. The Solutions Engineer is a customer-focused technical sales professional who ensures that technical information and guidance is provided to the customer, delivering meaningful outcomes based on Cisco’s product and services portfolio.
The SE will partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical function, showcasing Cisco solutions, providing customer presentations, performing technical demonstrations, creating BoMs, and running proof of concept activities. The SE will partner, consult, influence, and design solutions to allow the customer to meet their desired outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Technology solution consultant to the customer and the Cisco account team
- Leverage an array of Cisco technology, services, and support specialists
- Collaborate closely with the Account Manager on account planning activities
- Educate the customer on Cisco differentiation, creating demand
- Set a brand preference to Cisco
- Align Cisco’s product and services capabilities to customers business drivers
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of industry-related experience
- Cisco product experience or relevant experience in key competitor offerings in technology area of emphasis is required
Preferred Qualifications:
- CCNP or CCIE
- BS/BA (EE/CS) or relevant experience
- Customer intimacy skills
- Pre-sales experience
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
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
- 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