What You'll Do

At Cisco, we're redefining how the world connects, secures, and innovates. Your mission is to make technology intuitive and enable our customers and partners to realize their full potential as they evolve in an increasingly digital, cloud-first world. You will lead the way in helping organizations achieve secure, seamless connectivity, harness the power of data and AI, and accelerate their transformation to drive business outcomes.

As a Networking Specialist Solution Engineer, you'll work closely with Cisco Partner Account Executives and Selective Partners in a pre-sales technical capacity, tackling complex challenges in designing, qualifying, and positioning Cisco's industry-leading solutions along with enabling our Partner Community on latest Cisco Solutions.

With primary focus on Networking Architecture, the role requires you to provide both transactional and consultative selling along with collaborating across teams of Cisco Sellers & partners.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise: Act as trusted advisor to customer and Selective Partners by showcasing expertise in Core Cisco Secure Networking portfolio including but not limited to Routing, Switching, WLAN & Security technologies.

Customer & Partner Engagement: Lead the technical sales process, designing and presenting relevant solutions based on identified requirements.

Deliver compelling technical presentations, enablement sessions, address complex product inquiries from customers & partners

Pre-sales Activities: Tasks like technical presentations, Solution Demos, Bill of Material Creation and providing technical proposals are standard for this position.

Services & Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, sharing technical insights and best practices to foster ongoing innovation.

Continuous Learning: Commit to continuous learning to stay current with emerging technologies and maintain relevant skill sets to support our customers and business objectives.

Who You'll Work with:

You will be part of Cisco Global Virtual Engineering (GVE) team. GVE is composed of highly motivated, talented, and customer-centric engineers and architects, focused on supporting Cisco SMB and Mid-Market Customers, along with providing support for aligned Partners. Although the role is based in Bangalore but may require occasional travel to other Indian Cities to support the business.

GVE operates as a global organization, offering the opportunity to build a broad human network beyond your immediate team. The environment celebrates diversity and actively seeks individuals who bring diverse skills to strengthen the team. We foster

collaboration, inclusion, and continuous growth, enabling you to develop your skills and contribute meaningfully to Cisco's mission of connecting everything securely and making anything possible.

Cisco emphasizes a culture of inclusion and diversity, encouraging employees to bring their whole selves to work and supporting career growth through various roles in engineering, customer experience, sales and more.

Who You Are:

You are a passionate change-maker who thrives in complex environments and is dedicated to demonstrating how technology can positively transform communities and businesses. As a trusted technical advisor, you excel at simplifying complex concepts and driving business success for Cisco, our Partners and customers. You quickly create value by identifying customer/Partner needs, delivering impactful demonstrations, and designing tailored solutions that lead to technical wins and outstanding customer experiences. Your technical expertise is complemented by your curiosity and commitment to staying at the forefront of networking trends.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-5 years of presales experience in a technical role

• Proven customer-facing experience in presales or consulting

• Exceptional written, verbal, listening, and presentation skills

• Strong knowledge of Networking products and technologies

• Ability to articulate and differentiate Cisco's Networking Portfolio

Technical Qualifications

• Industry Certifications like CCNA, CCNP(Enterprise), CCNP (Wireless).

• Knowledge of Enterprise Routing, Switching and Wireless technology

• Working towards any industry led certification.

• Basic understanding of either of Cisco Collaboration, Security, CAI (Cloud and AI) solutions and/or Network Programmability will be added advantage.

Language Proficiency

• English (written and spoken)

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.

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.