Are you passionate about crafting next-generation network solutions for people, applications, and things? Do you want to be a part of driving innovative solutions to optimize and modernize the network through advanced observability capabilities, data science, and Artificial Intelligence to provide digital resiliency?

Cisco is seeking Networking Solutions Engineer role to be part of the Americas Organization, based out São Paulo, Brazil.

Meet the team

As a Networking Solutions Engineer, you will partner primarily with a Networking Account Executive. In addition, you will work with Portfolio Account Teams, Partners and other cross-functional teams to drive Cisco Networking brand preference with our customers.

As a Networking SE Specialist, you will also collaborate with the various Business Entity teams to prioritize and influence features and capabilities roadmap to meet growing customer demands.

Your impact

You will work with the Americas Networking Organization as a Solutions Engineer, covering the Enterprise Brazil territory. As part of the interactions with end customers and partners, you will lead RFP response(s), set up demonstrations, drive proof of values, explain features and benefits to customers, and design and configure products to meet specific customer requirements.

Key areas of responsibility include:

Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities

Driving demand generation activities

Enable technology capabilities internally with Portfolio Account Teams and externally with our partners.

Understanding customer requirements and mapping technical solutions to meet the needs

Network designs oriented to solve customer needs and accelerate innovation

Performing product demo and Proof of Concept (PoC) labs

Aligning cross-functionally to various business entities and teams across the company

Challenger mindset willing to help customers with complex/challenging digital transformation opportunities

Minimum Qualifications

The Networking Solutions Engineer has a passion for technology and a zeal for customer interaction! This is a pre-sales, technical role passionate about architectural selling covering customers from all verticals and segments in the Enterprise Brazil territory. You should excel in communicating technical architectures, solutions and products to key decision- makers from Managers to Directors and above. They should be comfortable speaking publicly to both small and large audiences.

Pre-sales experience

Understanding of competitive networking products such as HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet

BS in Engineering (Computer systems, Electronics, Telecommunications or equivalent)

Can work under pressure with minimum supervision.

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. CCNP or equivalent as a minimum, CCIE, CCDE, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform and others, desirable

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of proven experience sizing and designing Routing, SD-WAN overlay, 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, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, Adaptive Policy), and network management.

Excellent communication and presentation skills

API and programmability knowledge is a plus

Willingness to travel to customer and partner sites as needed 40% of the time approximately. We offer a flexible work from home or office (where Cisco offices are available) option

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.