Application window is expected to close on 12/20/2024 Why You Will Love Cisco Is technology your passion? Come work for a company where you can see your ideas come to life. Where people consistently work with industry leaders and knowledgeable specialists that will help craft your future and career. Want a company that has excellent benefits, strong employee programs, and an incredible PTO policy right from the beginning? Then we hope you will keep reading. 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 * Telemetry Who You'll Work With You will work with Cisco's latest silicon architectures for hyper-scale production networks, helping influence the direction of our software. You will be surrounded by proven pre-sales engineers and business unit leaders eager to address the daring demands of your customer. 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. Minimum Qualifications: * 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. Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case-by-case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.