Solutions Engineer- GES West

THE APPLICATION WINDOW IS EXPECTED TO CLOSE ON 7/20/25

Successful candidate will be located in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

MEET THE TEAM

The Cloud + AI Infrastructure (CAI) team delivers scalable strategy with local execution for data center customer transformation and growth. The CAI Global Enterprise Segment desires to bring onboard a hardworking Solutions Engineer (SE), that will be working as a trusted advisor and partner to top Enterprise Organizations.

YOUR IMPACT

As a Cloud and AI Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating the success of the Cisco Field Sales teams in selling and positioning data center virtualization and system architecture solutions effectively against competing offerings.

• Partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco product solutions-setting up demonstrations and explaining features and benefits to customers-and designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs
• Build awareness, fostering education and driving energy for Cloud and AI with both internal and external team members, partners, etc.
• Act as a link between technical teams, account teams, executives, partners/customers.
• Play a meaningful role in the design, development and promotion of the technical solutions and address challenges.
• Travel as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.
• Keep up-to-date on relevant competitors' solutions, products and services
• Deliver and/or support delivery of technical presentations to customers, as well as deliver architecture selling concept and methodology to customers
• You are passionate about the customer experience and excited about new technology
• You are a true teammate and love to learn

You are able to demystify complex technology solutions to senior technical leaders and executives. You have experience in designing scalable data center networking fabrics for high performing GPUaaS workloads. Experience with all related DCN networking protocols & products: ethernet, IP, switching, routing, fast convergence, QoS, EVPN, ACI, VXLAN, etc. Storage networking protocols: fibre channel, iSCSI, NFS/CiFS, storage multi-pathing, RoCE, InfiniBand. You can understand complex technical and selling situations and know how to handle the challenges or solicit the required resources.

**This role requires a deep understanding of Data Center Compute and Networking.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of related experience and/or Cisco experience required.
• Confirmed technical knowledge and consultative skills and able to train and disseminate information.
• Knowledge and understanding of networking protocols and technologies
• Verifiable written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years knowledge of any combination of Datacenter, Storage, Compute, Apps, Big Data, Converged Infrastructure, AI infrastructure or Data Center Networking experience
• Excellent presentation skills - ability to deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on Data Center, Cloud, and/or AI topics
• Experience with Nvidia, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, NetApp, HPE, and/or other AI vendors
• Experience working with and/or supporting containerization technologies (e.g., Docker or equivalent experience) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for scalable and efficient model deployment.
• Experienced in the design and/or deployment of Data Center solutions including traditional DC standalone design, VXLAN and SDN solutions (Cisco ACI, NXOS EVPN)
• Expert level certification in the DCN space; CCNP, CCIE R&S and/or Data Center CCIE certification highly desirable and/or preferred.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.