Solutions Engineer – Federal
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Solutions Engineer supporting U.S. Federal sales for Cisco ThousandEyes, a digital experience assurance platform. Demonstrating, architecting, and deploying solutions for network and application performance visibility.
Responsibilities:
- Support the technical sales process
- Assist sales in technical prospecting to uncover opportunities
- Demonstrate ThousandEyes solutions, capabilities, and use cases
- Build and maintain technical trusted-advisor relationships with customers
- Support customers during solution trials
- Scope and architect solution deployments
- Present to decision makers during trial wrap-up meetings
- Participate in Solutions Engineering team activities, weekly meetings, and quarterly business review sales meetings
- Present technical topics and successful wins
- Share technical challenges and ways to overcome them
- Establish and enhance demonstration material
- Research technical topics impacting the industry
- Interface with Marketing and support trade shows, networking events, and ThousandEyes Connect events
- Contribute to blog, social media, white-paper, and case-study content
- Interface with Product Management and Engineering to provide solution feedback and suggestions
- Participate in internal and external solution beta programs
- Coordinate with Customer Success on post-sales training, deployment, and support
- Encourage customers to use Customer Success as an extension of their NOC
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Solutions Engineering experience
- Experience selling into US Federal customers
- Experience working with application and network protocols, including HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and BGP
- Experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting, or supporting application and network infrastructure
- Experience working with unified communications technologies or solutions
- Preferred: experience with application and network performance analysis solutions
- Preferred: experience with packet analysis of network and application protocols
- Preferred: experience using at least one scripting language, such as Python, Perl, or JavaScript
- Preferred: experience troubleshooting and supporting Apple, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems
- Preferred: experience delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to technical and business audiences
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st, plus up to 80 hours carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies



















