Solutions Engineer

Solutions Engineer - Cloud AI Infrastructure

What Youll Do

• Partner with Account Executives and sales teams to understand customer priorities, identify opportunities, and shape technical strategies.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners across data center networking, compute, and AI infrastructure.
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, architecture discussions, demonstrations, and presentations.
• Translate customer business and technical requirements into scalable, differentiated Cisco solutions.
• Develop end-to-end architectures leveraging Ciscos portfolio and relevant technology ecosystems.
• Contribute technical insights to account planning, opportunity development, cross-sell, up-sell, and competitive strategies.
• Stay current on emerging trends across data center networking, compute, and AI infrastructure and translate insights into customer opportunities.
• Collaborate with portfolio teams, technical specialists, partners, and sales stakeholders to drive customer outcomes.
• Support customer workshops, partner engagements, enablement sessions, and industry events.
• Travel as required for customer, partner, and Cisco engagements across India and internationally.

Who Youll Work With

You will be part of a global Cloud and AI Architecture organization, partnering with Account Executives, portfolio sellers, partners, and customers.

The primary focus will be India, with opportunities to support broader APJC engagements and collaborate with global teams.

Who You Are

You are a customer-focused technical sales professional with strong architecture expertise and a passion for data center networking, compute, and AI infrastructure.

You can engage confidently with both technical and business stakeholders, simplify complex technology concepts, and translate customer challenges into business value. You thrive in a collaborative, matrixed environment and are comfortable influencing across teams to deliver customer outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of technical presales, solutions engineering, or relevant hands-on infrastructure experience data center networking, compute, storage and how compute, storage, and network integrate.
• Deep knowledge and practical experience with the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g., Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc).
• Solid understanding of data center networking design fundamentals across traditional 3-tier architecture, VXLAN EVPN, Software Defined Network and Data Center Interconnect.
• Solid understanding of network security in data center including design and implementation of multi-tenancy, N-S/E-W firewall and microsegmentation.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to deliver engaging demos, Proof-of-Concept, workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on infrastructure and modernization topics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the Cisco data center portfolio (Nexus/ACI, UCS, Intersight, HyperFabric) or comparable competitive platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-ready infrastructure: GPU compute, high-performance fabrics (RoCE/InfiniBand), AI/ML reference architectures (e.g., Cisco + NVIDIA), and storage for AI workloads.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE Data Center, VMware VCP, CKA/CKAD, or major cloud associate/professional certs)

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