Cisco Solutions Engineer Manager 

United Kingdom, England, London 

497883300

Your Impact:

You'll have the ability to own the team that will develop and execute a solution lead business outcome strategy to achieve sales targets for products and services. Develop relationships with key decision-makers. You will need to travel as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 10+ years of experience in assurance, automation, networking, including consulting, service implementation and operational expertise,
2. 2+ years directly running a technology pre-sales engineering organization and leading cross functional teams
3. Domain knowledge of service assurance, performance monitoring, routing, optical, optics, network automation, automation tools, SDN, ROADM, DWDM, metro core, access, edge, and aggregation network.
4. Strong awareness and understanding of TWAMP, RON, SDN, SRv6, BNG, MPLS-SR, VxLAN, EVPN and ECMP.
5. Must have strong proven track record of driving solutions engineering teams to success across fast changing technology landscape, with customer wins, thought leadership and ability to evangelize across various internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cisco assurance (PCA), Network Automation portfolio e.g. Cisco Crosswork,
• Establish key performance indicators for all direct reports that are geared towards the development of solutions based on customer architectures
• Preferred experience at developing the next gen demos, solution-focused collateral, messaging, and technical sales engagement motions for these solutions and scaling them globally.
• Experience at mentoring the field through enablement and field sales engagements.
• Preferred experience at developing content for and present at internal and customer facing events such as sales kick off, cisco live, MWC, generalist & specialist SE training events and ecosystem partner events.
• Gather and consolidate a global customer and Industry perspective to drive product strategy and roadmaps with product management, as well as technical messaging with marketing as the voice of the customer.
• Basic understanding of NETCONF/YANG, REST, JSON, Network telemetry,
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, techniques & infrastructure (learning models, LLM, GenAI, AGI, NLP, neural networks, deep learning, AI Frameworks, GPU and DPU)
• Understanding of automation tool sets (Ansible, Terraform, ROBOT) with a strong focus on DC switching and compute.
• Solid knowledge of Network Automation and Assurance solutions and positioning including competitive landscape
• Strong knowledge of customer networks, their current challenges, ability to act as consultant and guide the customers – particularly Service Providers, Large Enterprises, and/or Public Sector customers.
• The candidate also needs to be willing to travel (up to 50%)
• Understanding of scripting (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to effectively articulate technology and product positioning to both business and technical users.
• Must possess a strong focus on customer service and be able to establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the sales cycle,
• CCNP, CCDP, CCIE are highly regarded.