What You'll DoCisco seeks a Solutions Engineer to partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco product solutions-setting up demonstrations and explaining features and benefits to customers-and designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs.
- Perform technical presentations for customers, partners and prospects. Set up demonstrations and explain features and benefits.
- Designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs.
- Ability to learn quickly and stay current with the latest business and technology innovations in order to gain access to the broad palette of Cisco technologies and applications in multiple vertical markets.
- Assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities. Actively participate as a specialist on assigned Virtual Team and provides consultative support in their area of specialization to other Systems Engineers and Architects.
Who You'll Work WithYou will work with a team of Systems Engineers who partner with Account Managers. We work with partners and customers to ensure the best possible solution. We have been in roles from 2 years to 16 years and support and empower each other. We have a wide range of interests outside of work, but we all love technology.
Our Minimum Requirements for this Role:- 5+ years related experience in a fast-paced high technology environment
- Cisco product experience (required)
- Competitive product experience (preferred)
- BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent. CCIE certification Preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of baseline SE skills and in-depth knowledge in more than one area of specialization.
Preferred Experience:- Operating experience in: Datacenter/Virtualization Networking
- 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.