**What You'll Do**
You have a highly customer-facing role and will conduct technical presentations, showcase Cisco solutions, set up demonstrations and 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 to meet their specific needs.
You will provide high-level and detailed consultative solutions, technical and sales support for selected major SP account opportunities. Understand business requirements for customer base and be able to translate them into technical requirements. Understand and articulate Cisco's Enterprise Networking architectures and services. You will facilitate better communications and understanding of customer requirements between customers, corporate and the field. Create, present and document technical solutions.
You will perform in-depth and high-level technical presentations for customers, partners and prospects. Drive identified account opportunities (i.e. technical consulting, upper level management presentations, Cisco technology solutions, product requirements, and design validation) while allowing local account team to maintain long-term ownership.
You provide consultative support to other Team Specialists and Systems Engineers. You exhibit leadership and will be viewed as a leader by senior management, peers, partners, company and customers.
Your position will require some travel responsibilities as well as virtual rich media presence for sales activities.
You will actively participate as a specialist on assigned teams and/or Solutions Team(s).
**Who You'll Work With**
In this dynamic, customer-facing role, you will partner directly with Account Managers, Systems Engineers and an extended team to position sophisticated software and hardware solutions focused on solving the business and technical problems of our customer. In that capacity, you will be part of a multinational specialist/account team serving the customer and you will rely on an extended network of Cisco services professionals and technical teams, with close support of your sales leadership/executives.
**Who You Are**
You have extensive knowledge and experience in Enterprise Networking, Solutions and Architectures along with extensive experience on Service Providers at the engineering level through the CxO level. You have experience in Campus LAN (Ethernet, IP, Switching, Routing, BGP, LISP, VxLAN, BGP EVPN, etc), Campus Wireless (Wi-Fi 6), WAN (SD-WAN, IPSec, MPLS VPN, DMVPN, etc). You have the ability to understand complex technical and selling situations and know how to handle the problem or solicit the required resources.
Your experience includes:
- Extensive expertise in Campus Access Networking (Wired and Wireless) design utilizing Cisco Catalyst and competitive switch offerings.
Knowledge of VXLAN and SDN solutions (Cisco SD-Access, VXLAN/EVPN)
- Understanding of APIs and programmatic methods for automation & orchestration using tools such as Ansible & Python. Cisco NSO knowledge will be a plus
- Knowledge of Security Solutions, mainly around Network Access Control with Cisco ISE. And understanding of Cisco offering on visibility like Stealthwatch is highly appreciated
- Public and Private Cloud offerings and ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
Our minimum requirements for this role:
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Confirmed technical knowledge and consultative skills and able to train and disseminate information.
- 12+ years related experience and Cisco experience required. Cisco product and end-to-end positioning required.
- BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent.
- R&S CCIE and/or CCDE certification highly desirable and/or preferred.
**Why Cisco**
WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!
But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
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