Implementation Engineer | ThousandEyes - Federal

Who We Are

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

About The Role

When large enterprise customers acquire new software, the best way to ramp to productivity often involves a personal touch from resources who know the platform inside and out. This role’s main responsibility is to engage with customers to deliver outstanding enablement, implementation and optimization services for their ThousandEyes deployment.

You'll need to be a ThousandEyes product expert, with monitoring system expertise, and a solid foundation in core network architecture. You'll plan for and deliver on a wide range of engagement types, including project planning, implementation, and documentation of monitoring services, end-user training, and optimization. You'll need to be a generalist who's polished and easy to put in front of a wide variety of customer roles.

As part of this role, you will also be responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment, therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

What You’ll Do

• Guide customers on deploying and implementing the ThousandEyes product
• Implement ThousandEyes in customer environments in an efficient and cost-effective manner
• Engage with customers to deliver product implementation and integration services
• Lead many projects concurrently understanding current and future action items
• Delivery of training and industry best practice discussions
• Build value-based relationships with customers, leading to referral and renewal
• Leverage enterprise data analytics to track and report on customer engagement
• Contribute to best practice creation and maintenance
• Track and report on utilization and work performed
• Special projects as assigned
• Identification of potential product/services upsell or cross-sell opportunities
• Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential.
• We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

Qualifications

• A standout "customer first" attitude
  
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a technical field, or equivalent working experience
  
• At least 5 years working in a customer-facing role
  
• Project management and consulting experience mandatory
  
• Firm grasp of network and application protocols (Cisco/Juniper certification strongly preferred - CCNA/JNCP, etc. )
  
• Experience with Cloud/SaaS software products is a plus
  
• Experience maintaining or implementing LAN/WAN environments
  
• Familiarity with web technologies (deployment, maintenance, debugging) including REST APIs
  
• Experience with at least 1 programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
  
• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills
  
• Deep technical acumen
  
• Enjoy a fast-paced, multifaceted environment
  
• Able to prioritize and accomplish tasks in tight timeframes
  
• English and Portuguese written and spoken communication skills (at C1/native level)

Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.

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.