Cisco Solutions Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

964973819

What You'll Do

Cisco seeks a results-oriented and driven pre-sales Solutions Engineer to lead a co-development engineering engagement with a large web-scale customer. This is a highly technical position that supports the sales organization so you must run all the technical aspects of pre-sales activities including next-generation hardware and software. This position includes post-sales support, being responsible for presenting, demonstrating, crafting solutions, feature planning, and organization to pursue the specific needs of one of the most influential companies in the world. In order to do this optimally, you should be highly accomplished with:

• The latest on datacenter solutions, products and services
• Cisco IOS-XR Operating System (or equivalent)
• Open-source NOS – SONiC
• Routing Protocols
• Strong understanding of datacenter and WAN architecture and design
• Working knowledge of optical system design - Metro, RON, DWDM and optics for datacenter environments
• Good understanding of silicon architecture, ASICs and system designs
• Translate customer requests into engineering specific documents
• Perform technical presentations/Demo for customers and internal audiences
• Coordinate and prioritize detailed data for customer review
• Automation Tooling and Scripting
• SP networking designs
• Network Hardware Architecture
• Hardware Architecture
• QoS
• MPLS
• Segment Routing
• Netconf/YANG/OpenConfig
• Linux/BSD Systems

Who You Are

You are a creative individual always looking for ways to improve a system. You are constantly finding patterns in-process and offering solutions to advance solutions. You are as comfortable in a spreadsheet as you are discussing the latest customer requirements and demonstrating them in code or cli. You are eager to boost customers' overall understanding of solutions by clarifying details.

• 5+ years related experience in a fast-paced high technology environment
• Cisco product experience (required)
• In-depth knowledge of baseline SE skills and in-depth knowledge in more than one area of specialization
• Operating experience in: Datacenter/Virtualization Networking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Competitive product experience (preferred)
• BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent. CCIE certification desirable.
• 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.