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