Solutions Engineer - Cloud and AI Networking @ Cisco

The India sales team is a truly vibrant sales organization that covers accounts across verticals/industries in the country. we service customers in the financial services, retail, logistics, healthcare, public sector, and manufacturing industries. You will need to be a highly skilled, customer-focused technical sales professional providing technical support and mentorship to customers and collaboration with the account manager to develop appropriate customer solution offerings on opportunities.

You will have an architectural perspective across cisco product portfolio and can craft your specialization for specific opportunities. gain access to the entire portfolio of cisco technologies and applications in a variety of vertical markets. in additional to technological proficiency, and the ability to learn and know the latest, your interpersonal, presentation and troubleshooting skills evoke passion and confidence. Keep up-to-date on relevant solutions, products and services. provide technical and sales support for accounts in assigned territory. perform technical presentations for customers, partners and prospects.

The solutions architect will partner with our account executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing cisco product solutions, setting up demonstrations and explaining features and benefits to customers, crafting and configuring products to meet specific customer needs.

You''ll collaborate as part of a ground-breaking sales engineering team. We offer exhilarating, inspiring, global, high impact, and uniquely broad opportunities for your growth.

Solutions engineer role is a highly skilled customer-focused technical sales professional who provides in-depth technical information and specific design/implementation mentorship to one customer in a dedicated manner.

This solutions engineer role provides a sophisticated architectural perspective across the cisco architecture portfolios, including software and services, demonstrating knowledge of the broad cisco portfolio as well as his / her technical specializations as needed.

He / She collaborates with the rest of the sales ecosystem on strategic and complex opportunities and coordinates additional resources (e.g. consulting specialists, demo labs, etc.) to recommend, develop, and propose appropriate customer solution and services offerings.

acts in a consultative fashion and is looked to as a trusted technical advisor by the account team and customer allowing the systems engineer to identify cisco solution opportunities aligned to the customer''s business goals.

• Bachelor of Engineering degree or equivalent
• 8-12 years field Pre sales experience as a systems engineer/solutions architect or equivalent
• Cisco product experience , pre-sales experience required.
• Knowledge and strong operating experience in following areas of specialization: Compute hardware, HCI, Storage, backup, virtualization.
• In-depth knowledge on Datacenter solutions like SDN, SDS, and compute hardware.
• Knowledge of relevant solutions sets, product line specifications, performance criteria and applications.
• Pro-active self-starter and innovator
• Networking and relationship building skills
• Phenomenal teammate
• Consistent track record to focus and achieve goals
• Perform daily with the highest degree of integrity
• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.

• Formulate and communicate a solution / vision
• Experience working with and handling large or small enterprises and public-sector organizations.