Solution Engineer

Meet the Team
Join a dynamic, customer-focused group of Solutions Engineers who are dedicated to helping enterprise and commercial customers across India accelerate their business growth in a secure and scalable way. Our team thrives on collaboration, technical innovation, and making a real impact for our clients. Together, we bring deep expertise across Cisco's Networking portfolio and are committed to delivering best-in-class solutions in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Your Impact
As a Solutions Engineer, you'll be an integral part of the Cisco Sales organization, partnering with account teams to drive technical pre-sales activities and shape the future of our customers' networks. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your technical expertise, engage with key decision-makers, and play a pivotal advisory role for both clients and internal teams.

• Become the technical sales specialist for Cisco's Networking portfolio, articulating features, functions, and benefits to stakeholders from IT Managers to CTOs.
• Understand customer and partner requirements and design end-to-end Cisco networking solutions tailored to their business needs.
• Conduct online product demonstrations, answer technical questions, analyze client requirements, and develop robust technical solutions in a pre-sales environment.
• Collaborate on strategic sales initiatives, including customer outreach and channel training, to drive business growth in key regions.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with customers and partners, providing technical leadership and support throughout the sales cycle.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field.
• 15 + years of experience in a pre-sales technical role (e.g., Solutions Architect, Systems Engineer, Sales Engineer).
• Solid hands-on experience in IP routing, switching, WiFi, SD-WAN, Cyber Security, and IoT.
• Experience working with cloud services (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS).
• Prior experience with network programming and APIs (e.g., Python).

Preferred Qualifications

• CCIE certification (strongly preferred).
• Knowledge of the sales cycle (e.g., MEDDPICC) and a proven ability to contribute to proposals and client presentations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong relationship-building, resourcefulness, resilience, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, prioritize, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

WeAreCisco
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Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

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