Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
- Drive demand generation activities
- Enable technology capabilities internally with Portfolio Account Teams and externally with our partners
- Understand customer requirements and map technical solutions to meet the needs
- Network design
- Deep product and solution knowledge: Product positioning, differentiation across solutions, operational characteristics
- Perform product demo and Proof of Concept (PoC) labs
- Maintain competitive knowledge to strategically position Cisco’s products and services
- Follow market transition and industry trends to anticipate customer needs
- Align cross-functionally to various business entities and teams across the company
- Have a challenger mindset willing to help customers with complex/challenging digital transformation opportunities
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience sizing and designing Routing, Wireless and Switching deployments both On-Prem and Cloud Based.
- 5+ years of developed skills and knowledge in networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, LISP) network segmentation technologies (VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet
- Pre-sales experience
- Typically requires BS/BA (preferably EE/CS) or equivalent
- Can work under pressure with minimum supervision
- Critical thinking to address customer concerns and to support customer business growth
- Customer-focused attitude
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast‑paced environment
- Cisco and non-Cisco Certifications a plus (CCIE, CCDE, CCNP, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
- API and programmability knowledge is a plus
Hard Skills
- Routing
- Wireless
- Switching
- TCP/IP
- BGP
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- VRF
- MPLS
- ZeroTrust
Soft Skills
- Excellent Communication
- Presentation Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Customer-Focused Attitude
- Ability to Manage Multiple Projects
Certifications & Qualifications
- CCIE
- CCDE
- CCNP
- DevNet
- AWS
- Terraform
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