Cisco Solutions Engineer Telefonica Channel 

Spain, Community of Madrid, Madrid 

174712784

What You'll Do

You’ll get to work across a vast portfolio of Cisco products within the Enterprise Networking and Security areas, and you will help the Partner build managed services over those architectures, so a thorough knowledge of Enterprise and Service Provider technologies is required. As SE for one of our Service Provider Channel accounts within EMEAR, you will be responsible for driving the day to day relationship with Partner in multiple countries, define the technical strategy, enablement plan, and support models that allowed us to increase our sell-through business, and increase our products insertion in their portfolio, working closely with the Partner Account Manager.

Your Impact

The Solutions Engineer is a high-profile role in building strategic relationships and involves the following elements:

Managed Service creation with Service Providers:Ensuring that partners successfully define and evolve offers based on the Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cisco security portfolios, and effectively take the offers to the market. You will participate in the end-to-end managed services creation and evolution lifecycle, from the service envision, definition, homologation, and launch, but also in the different iterations related to evolution and adaptation to address the new demands customers or markets will require over time.

Certification testing:Conduct feature and device configuration testing and validation to assist the Managed Service Provider go to market the different products and features they have defined as part of their service definition.

Keep up-to-date on industry trends, relevant competitive solutions, products and services. Provide feedback to the relevant Cisco Business Units regarding new customer requirements and potential actual product gaps.

In this job you will be / have:

• Have direct channel engineering responsibilities aligned to our largest channel partners for /Enterprise Networking Solutions. You will work collaboratively with extended team members.
• This is a partner-focused channel sales role which requires an architectural innovator experienced in defining and developing architectures and roadmaps to solve Partner business problems.
• Experience on how to integrate enterprise solutions into a Managed Service Provider service. Knowledge of multi-tenancy, AAA systems, enterprise certificates management, API and automation are required.
• Experience on how to plan, design and create a managed service within an MSP organization.
• Routing and SD-WAN knowledge. Being able to build and design software defined WAN networks, centrally managed from the cloud and ready to extend towards the hybrid cloud. Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Meraki are desired.
• Enterprise networking infrastructure, including, wired, wireless and switching. Experience managing Cisco Catalyst 8000 and Catalyst 9000 families is desired.
• Routing, Campus and datacenter overlay technologies like VXLAN, LISP, BGP, MPLS, EVPN, and highly desirable knowledge about Cisco SD-ACCESS solution.
• Knowledge about network visibility and monitoring tools such as Cisco ThousandEyes.
• Knowledge of tunneling protocols like SSL/TLS, IPSEC or GRE are required.

At Cisco you will be the first to benefit from what our technology can offer. Our approach is to enable you to be flexible in how you arrange your work, making sure you give and take the best.

Minimum Qualifications:

• You should bring pre-sales engineering or technical customer facing experience with large customers and preferably with Channel Partners.
• Deep technical skills in the Networking and Security areas.
• Impactful verbal and written communication and strong presentation skills.
• Write and speak Spanish and English fluently.

Preferred Qualifications:

• You will ideally bring 5+ years pre-sales engineering or technical customer facing experience in Channel and Managed Service Provider environments.
• Preferably have CCNP or CCIE certifications.
• DEVNET and programmability skills are highly desired.
• Ability to work independently and remotely as well as with your team to accomplish objectives.
• Continuous learning and self-empowerment attitude.
• Ability to train and mentor others in our enterprise technologies.
• Great relationship building skills, tenacity, resilience.