As a Solutions Engineer, you will play a vital role on a team that operates like a start-up, leveraging Cisco’s extensive resources, industry leadership, and scale. You will be part of the Incubation team within the Global Security Sales Organization (GSSO), responsible for selling innovative Cisco Security products to early adopters and preparing them for broader global distribution.
Your focus will be on Hypershield, a network security solution for modern applications. A solid understanding of customer value drivers related to network security, as well as the trends and market landscape, is essential. You will employ a proactive approach to generate pipeline and revenue for this product, implementing a thoughtful go-to-market strategy targeting new and existing Cisco Security customers across your assigned territory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Business Units and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to ensure the market success of Hypershield.
- Conduct technical presentations and demonstrations to explain features and benefits to customers.
- Build relationships with key decision-makers and position Cisco solutions according to customer needs.
- Craft architectures and configure products tailored to specific customer requirements.
- Lead all technical aspects of pre-sales activities through to successful deployment.
- Engage with key technologies across application security, cloud security, data center networking, and more.
- Assist with major Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
- Participate in Early Adoption and Private Preview programs for new technologies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of technical experience as a pre-sales engineer, network operations support, or application engineering role.
- 5+ years of enterprise pre-sales experience with network, cloud security, and/or micro-segmentation products.
- Solid mastery of LAN, WAN, Cloud Security (L4-L7, FWaaS, IPS, DNS Security, VPN, etc.) technologies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of competitive products like Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, VMware, and Illumio.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Ability to articulate Cisco differentiators effectively.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to present technical information clearly.
Language Requirements: Not specified.
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