Cisco Pre 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

838817456

This role requires a solid understanding of customer value drivers related to network security for modern platform architectures and the related security trends and market landscape. You will apply a hunting mentality to generate pipeline and revenue with a thoughtful go-to-market strategy for new and existing Cisco Security customers.

Your Impact

You will conduct technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, PoV’s to explain features and benefits to customers. You will form relationships with our customer’s key decision-makers, positioning Cisco solutions aligned precisely to their requirements. As an advisor to the customer, you will craft architectures and configure products to meet their specific needs and be prepared to lead all technical aspects of pre-sales activities through to a successful deployment of our incubated technologies.

You must be highly accomplished in the areas of application security concepts, cloud security concepts, and more specifically the entire Cloud Application Security Development and Deployment lifecycle. You will possess skills across data center networking, firewalls, Application and Network Segmentation strategies (Macro & Micro), Container Security and Orchestration platforms. Additionally, you will need knowledge of and to keep up to date on networking and software enablement, API’s and Network Programmability. You will work with a variety of technologies and will therefore need strong cross-functional collaboration and consultative skills. The capacity to demonstrate technical solutions and capabilities effectively and conduct multi-architectural Proof-of-Value (POV) tests is a must.

Deliver technical presentations along with sales staff via web conferencing or in-field to prospective C-level audience and technical decision makers.

Provide essential input and responses to assist with major RFIs / RFPs.

Assist with delivery and GTM of new product features as they are introduced.

Minimum Qualifications:

5+ years of technical experience as a pre-sales engineer, network operations support, or application engineering role.

5+ years of enterprise pre-sales experience working directly with network, cloud security and/or micro-segmentation products in a customer-facing role.

Have a solid mastery of LAN, WAN, Cloud Security (L4-L7, FWaaS, IPS, DNS Security, VPN etc.) technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).

Deep understanding and familiarity with competing market-leading micro-segmentation products

Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies, including switching, routing, and security.

Familiarity with security principles related to microservices architecture and serverless computing.

A self-starter with a positive attitude and friendly outgoing personality.

Strong written and email etiquette skill.

Strong oral interpersonal skills, including the ability to present technical information in user-friendly language.

Ability to prioritize and work responsibly with or without direct supervision.

Pay range depends upon U.S. state