Cisco Partner Solutions Engineer Cisco Networking APO 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

137561189

What you will do:

Partner Enablement

• Create and validate the partner strategic and tactical Technical Business Plans.
• Support, influence, and implement effective partner service practices and offerings.
• Deliver training to help partners improve technical sales and adoption capability.
• Ensure partner technical resources are provided appropriate products, solutions and architectures training utilizing various internal and external resources.
• Provide positioning and business case development training (for partner to use with customer) to senior partner technical leadership.
• You will educate Partners on Cisco's architectural plays and drives partner solution innovation, investment, and practice building in alignment with architectural and solution strategies.
• Facilitate engagements between partner with BU’s PM and TME teams to provide product feedback and roadmap updates.
• Cross-communicate Cisco and partner value propositions, especially between partner and Cisco field SEs.
• Proactively gather insight into strategic/high-value opportunities that the Partner is pursuing and communicate with Cisco field teams.

Who You Are:

• You are a technical sales professional with deep knowledge of Cisco Networking solutions including both traditional and cloud operating models.
• You collaborate across the Cisco team to execute partner capability development.
• You will educate Partners on Cisco's architectural plays and drives partner solution innovation, investment, and practice building in alignment with architectural and solution strategies.
• You work with Senior Partner technical and business leadership to co-develop technical business plan, investment business case, and execution/enablement needs.
• You innovate to accelerate partner transition in alignment with Cisco’s evolution.
• Travel up to 25% to meet with partners.

Our Minimum Qualifications for this role:

• 5+ years of proven experience sizing and designing Routing, Wireless and Switching deployments .
• 5+ years of developed skills and knowledge in networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) network segmentation technologies (VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet.
• CCNP or equivalent networking certification.

Preferred Qualifications: