Cyber Security Sales Specialist jobs at Cisco in United States, Atlanta

The application window is expected to close on: 8/15/2025

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

As a Networking Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal pre-sales technical role, working directly with key decision-makers and internal partners to showcase Cisco Networking products and solutions. You will help customers achieve their business outcomes by designing and configuring secure network architectures, leading demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) labs, and providing expert guidance on advanced observability, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence Cisco’s customer strategies and contribute to their digital transformation.

• Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
• Design and configure secure networking solutions (Routing, Switching, Wireless,
• Automation) to meet specific customer requirements
• Lead RFP responses, product demonstrations, and Proof-of-Concept labs
• Maintain deep product and solution knowledge, including competitive positioning
• Monitor market and industry trends to anticipate and address customer needs

• 5 years demonstrated ability in sizing and designing Routing, Wireless, and Switching deployments across Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid environments
• Extensive knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP , BGP , OSPF, EIGRP , LISP) and network segmentation technologies (e.g., VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, SGT, Adaptive Policy)
• Pre-sales technical experience supporting enterprise customers
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 35% as needed

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable with audiences of all sizes
• Familiarity with competitive networking products (e.g., HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet)
• Cisco and non-Cisco certifications (e.g., CCIE, CCDE, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
• Experience with API integration and network programmability
• Strong critical thinking skills and customer-focused attitude, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

• Serve as the technical authority for AI/ML security assurance, collaborating with engineering, product, and architecture teams to ensure secure, compliant delivery of systems and services.
• Define, implement, and maintain security standards for GenAI, ML pipelines, data usage, and AI applications across hybrid and cloud environments.
• Conduct threat modeling, adversarial risk assessments, and AI-specific threat surface analysis on LLMs, data pipelines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Drive secure-by-design practices throughout the AI development lifecycle, embedding security gates and validations.
• Lead AI-specific security testing, including red teaming, prompt injection defenses, RAG hardening, model sandboxing, and privacy-preserving techniques.

• +8 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity and GenAI security, including demonstrated work with prompt injection mitigation, adversarial robustness, and implementing AI governance controls.
• At least 5 years of experience working with AI ecosystem stacks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or LangChain), including securing AI/ML training pipelines and deployment workflows in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python, with a minimum of 3 years using Jupyter and proven experience in securing REST APIs and microservices in enterprise-scale applications.
• Expert at cloud security architectures across AWS, Azure, orGCP, and AI PaaS offerings like AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex AI.
• Minimum 3 years of experience conducting automated threat modeling and red teaming activities specifically for AI/ML systems.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, GDPR) and their implications for AI data handling.
• Knowledge of AI supply chain risks, synthetic data verification, and secure model provenance.
• Background in AI-specific security middleware, firewalls, or policy layers for model-based systems.
• Published work, patents, or thought leadership in AI security or trustworthy AI.
• Participation in AI/ML security working groups or standards bodies (e.g., OWASP AI, NIST, IEEE).
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) with mature software assurance programs.

The application window is expected to close on September 15, 2025.Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

In this role, you will drive the develop or a new workload platform leveraging Kubernetes, Cilium and Kubevirt with a focus on ease of use. You’ll collaborate with industry leading internal Cisco teams, like Isovalent, with the goal of making our platform’s network seamlessly co-exist with customer’s existing network topology. You’ll also partner with our AI Software & Platform team to leverage agentic AI for running playbook/automation to simplify migration of workloads and integrations from existing workload platforms to our platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years or Master’s degree with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of platform software development experience to including programming with GoLang or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience using Kubernetes for automating, scaling and managing workload applications.
• Demonstrated experience with open-source operating systems such as Linux
• Demonstrate experience using database management tools such as SQL
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with remote procecure calls (RPCs) like gRPC, Thrift and JSON RPC
• Experience with tools such as Cilium, Kubevirt, KVM and eBPF
• Experience with VMware vSphere and NSX
• Experience with platforms like OpenShift
• Experience with open-source tools like OpenStack

You will use relationships with the broader partner teams, including within the Global Security Sales Organization, Americas Partner Organization, and Americas Sales Organization, to help our strategic partners in a joint go-to-market motion to accelerate Security sales with an emphasis on driving the successful adoption of the partners’ investment in leading with Cisco Security.

You will expand relationships with these strategic partners, at leadership levels to increase awareness and seller participation. You will accomplish this through tight alignment, ongoing enablement, and the creation of sales plays to help remove friction and support partner and Cisco differentiation in portfolio as well as market.

Your Impact

This role requires a growth mindset with an extensive skills - the combination of strategic vision, cross-functional collaboration, sales experience, executive presence, strong execution, and global beneficial reseller discernment specific to cybersecurity and how to combat the competition.

Experience supporting channel sales motions to deliver outstanding experiences yielding in partner growth, profitability, and dedication.

Shown experience working within a matrixed organization with strong communication, interpersonal communication, and polished presentation skills.

Experience building a sales acceleration plan and associated framework with strategic global partners that support a cybersecurity-focused sell thru/with motion, inclusive of enablement, investment execution, and sales campaign leadership.

Minimum Qualifications :

5+ years proven experience in sales execution with strategic partners/customers.

Understanding of Cisco’s field sales organization operational model (roles and responsibilities, regions, segments, theaters, etc.) is required.

Broad high-tech industry and cyber security knowledge, understanding/experience with large OEM resellers preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Strong results orientation with a shown ability to complete and achieve goals.

Negotiation skills—the ability to overcome obstacles, resolve differences, and forge win-win agreements.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Education, or equivalent work experience.
• 2 years of experience leading and running high-performing teams, along with 5 years of dynamic experience in sales enablement, learning & development, product marketing, or GTM roles within the technology industry.
• Deep knowledge of Cisco Services offerings, including foundational support and high-value services.

• Strategic and creative problem solver with agile decision-making, a curious outlook, and the ability to balance short-term execution with long-term vision.
• Proven expertise in defining and executing global services sales enablement strategies, with a deep understanding of field sales, services adoption, and sales methodologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience applying AI technologies to improve sales enablement and efficiency.
• Outstanding communication, persuasion, and presentation skills, coupled with tight-knit collaboration abilities to form relationships, break down silos, and develop inclusive team environments.
• Strong programmatic and organizational capabilities, with a focus on data-driven execution and measurable progress.

The application window is expected to close on: 8/15/2025

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

As a Networking Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal pre-sales technical role, working directly with key decision-makers and internal partners to showcase Cisco Networking products and solutions. You will help customers achieve their business outcomes by designing and configuring secure network architectures, leading demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) labs, and providing expert guidance on advanced observability, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence Cisco’s customer strategies and contribute to their digital transformation.

• Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
• Design and configure secure networking solutions (Routing, Switching, Wireless,
• Automation) to meet specific customer requirements
• Lead RFP responses, product demonstrations, and Proof-of-Concept labs
• Maintain deep product and solution knowledge, including competitive positioning
• Monitor market and industry trends to anticipate and address customer needs

• 5 years demonstrated ability in sizing and designing Routing, Wireless, and Switching deployments across Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid environments
• Extensive knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP , BGP , OSPF, EIGRP , LISP) and network segmentation technologies (e.g., VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, SGT, Adaptive Policy)
• Pre-sales technical experience supporting enterprise customers
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 35% as needed

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable with audiences of all sizes
• Familiarity with competitive networking products (e.g., HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet)
• Cisco and non-Cisco certifications (e.g., CCIE, CCDE, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
• Experience with API integration and network programmability
• Strong critical thinking skills and customer-focused attitude, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment