Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, East

This posting will be removed March 31, 2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if sufficient number of applications are received.

**Qualified candidates who reside in the Eastern United States time zone will be considered. There is no relocation assistance. **

Your Impact

You will provide high-level and detailed consultative solutions, technical and sales support for selected major account opportunities. Understand business requirements for customer base and be able to translate them into technical requirements. Understand and articulate Cisco's cloud 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.

Meet the Team

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 and you will mentor other less experienced 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 Are

You have extensive knowledge and experience with Data Center Networking, cloud and virtualization technologies, solutions and architectures along with extensive experience selling data center and virtualization at the engineering level through the CxO level. You have experience in networking protocols, design and products: ethernet, IP, switching, routing, spanning tree, OTV, LISP, ACI, VXLAN, etc. Storage networking protocols: fibre channel, iSCSI, NFS/CiFS, storage multi-pathing. You have the ability to understand complex technical and selling situations and know how to handle the problem or solicit the required resources.

Our minimum requirements for this role:

* 6+ years related experience and Cisco experience required. Cisco product and end-to-end positioning required.

* Verifiable written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.

* Confirmed technical knowledge and consultative skills and able to train and disseminate information.

* R&S and/or Data Center CCIE certification highly desirable and/or preferred.

Preferred Qualifications;

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equal experience. Advanced degree is a plus.

* Extensive expertise in Data Center Networking design utilizing Cisco Nexus or competitive switch offerings.

* Knowledge of VXLAN and SDN solutions (Cisco ACI, NXOS EVPN)

* Understanding of APIs and programmatic methods for automation & orchestration using tools such as Ansible & Python.

* Public and Private Cloud offerings and ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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