Meet the Team 

Cisco seeks a results-oriented and driven pre-sales Solutions Engineer to lead a co-development engineering engagement with a large web-scale customer.  This is a highly technical position that supports the sales organization so you must run all the technical aspects of pre-sales activities including next-generation hardware and software. This position includes post-sales support, being responsible for presenting, demonstrating, crafting solutions, feature planning, and organization to pursue the specific needs of one of the most influential companies in the world. In order to do this optimally, you should be highly accomplished with:

You will work with Cisco's latest silicon architectures for hyper-scale production networks, helping influence the direction of our software. You will be surrounded by proven pre-sales engineers and business unit leaders eager to address the daring demands of your customer.

Your Impact 

Experience in designing Networks at scale AI back-end and front-end network design and deployment for datacenter networking, compute and optics Excelling within a fast-moving technical and business landscape The latest on datacenter solutions, products and services Cisco IOS-XR Operating System, NX-OS (or equivalent) Open-source NOS – SONiC Routing Protocols Strong understanding of datacenter and WAN architecture and design Working knowledge of optical system design - Metro, RON, DWDM and optics for datacenter environments Good understanding of silicon architecture, ASICs and system designs Understanding of AI workloads, LLM and MLOps tools Translate customer requests into engineering specific documents Perform technical presentations/Demo for customers and internal audiences Coordinate and prioritize detailed data for customer review Automation Tooling and Scripting SP networking designs Network Hardware Architecture Hardware Architecture QoS MPLS Segment Routing Netconf/YANG/OpenConfig Linux/BSD Systems Telemetry Working in a very fast-paced technical and business environment

Minimum Qualifications:

 7+ years related experience in a fast-paced high technology environment  Cisco product experience (required)  In-depth knowledge of baseline SE skills and in-depth knowledge in more than one area of specialization  Operating experience in: AI and Datacenter Networking

Preferred Qualifications:

 Competitive product experience (preferred)  BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent. CCIE certification desirable.  Experience in coding or software development a huge plus  Experience with SONiC a huge plus  Understanding and conversant about company, competitors, technologies, solutions, product strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.  Must be viewed as a leader by senior management, peers, customers and Cisco corporate organizations.  Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.  Ability to participate as a team member and assume a leadership role for the team.  Ability to understand complex technical and selling situations and the ability to solve the problem or solicit the required resources.

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