ENTERPRISE SALES NETWORKING SOLUTIONS ENGINEER - Maryland, Virginia or DC

Meet the team

You will be part of the Americas Networking Organization supporting Global Enterprise Segment team and improve our customers' lives, prospecting for new opportunities!

Your impact

As a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, you'll play a pivotal role in the sales process and work with the Enterprise Network portfolio of technology. Form relationships with our customers' key decision-makers, showcase Cisco Networking products and solutions with a focus on Secure Networking including Routing, Switching, Wireless, and Automation, lead RFP responses, set up demonstrations, drive proofs of value, explain features and benefits to customers, and design and configure products to meet specific customer requirements.

• Keep up to date on networking trends, competitive solutions products, and services
• Work with a variety of technologies and will therefore need strong cross-functional collaboration and consultative skills
• The capacity to demonstrate technical solutions and capabilities effectively and conduct multi-architectural Proof-of-Concept (PoC) tests is a must.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Partnering with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities.
• Driving demand generation activities.
• Enabling technology capabilities internally with Portfolio Account Teams and externally with our partners.
• Understanding customer requirements and mapping technical solutions to meet the needs.
• Network design.
• Deep product and solution knowledge: Product positioning, differentiation across solutions, operational characteristics.
• Performing product demos and Proof of Concept (PoC) labs.
• Following market transition and industry trends to anticipate customer needs.
• Aligning cross-functionally to various business entities and teams across the company.
• Challenger mindset willing to help customers with complex/challenging digital transformation opportunities
• Working directly with customers, to capture detailed knowledge of requirements and provide recommendations for the best products and solutions to achieve the desired business outcomes
• Collaborate with the various Business Entity teams to prioritize and influence features and capabilities roadmap to meet growing customer demands

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of proven experience sizing and designing Routing, Wireless, and Switching deployments both On-Prem and Cloud Based.
• Extensive skills and knowledge in networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, LISP) network segmentation technologies (VRF, MPLS, Zero Trust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management.
• Pre-sales experience a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet.
• Critical thinking to address customer concerns and to support customer business growth
• 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
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Generative Artificial Intelligence, and Agentic Artificial Intelligence

The application window is expected to close on: 10/25/25

Posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

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