GES West Solutions Engineer

The application window is expected to close on 11/20/2025

Ideal candidate will be located in Texas, however, would consider candidates in Remote US that is willing to relocate and/or work Central time zones

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

The Cloud AI Infrastructure (CAI) team delivers scalable strategy with local execution for data center customer transformation and growth. The CAI Global Enterprise Segment desires to bring onboard a hardworking Solutions Engineer (SE), that will be working as a trusted advisor and partner to top Enterprise Organizations.

Your Impact

As a Cloud and AI Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating the success of the Cisco Field Sales teams in selling and positioning data center virtualization and system architecture solutions effectively against competing offerings.

Partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco product solutions-setting up demonstrations and explaining features and benefits to customers-and designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs

• Build awareness, fostering education and driving energy for Cloud and AI with both internal and external team members, partners, etc.
• Act as a link between technical teams, account teams, executives, partners/customers.
• Play a meaningful role in the design, development and promotion of the technical solutions and address challenges.
• Travel as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.
• Keep up-to-date on relevant competitors’ solutions, products and services
• Deliver and/or support delivery of technical presentations to customers, as well as deliver architecture selling concept and methodology to customers
• You are passionate about the customer experience and excited about new technology
• You are a true teammate and love to learn
• You are able to demystify complex technology solutions to senior technical leaders and executives. You have experience in designing scalable data center networking fabrics for high performing GPUaaS workloads. Experience with all related DCN networking protocols & products: ethernet, IP, switching, routing, fast convergence, QoS, EVPN, ACI, VXLAN, etc. Storage networking protocols: fibre channel, iSCSI, NFS/CiFS, storage multi-pathing, RoCE, InfiniBand. In addition, experience with UCS, Hyperconverged environments, and cloud native platforms such as AWS, and Azure. You can understand complex technical and selling situations and know how to handle the challenges or solicit the required resources.
• This role requires a deep understanding of Data Center Compute and Networking.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of related experience and/or Cisco experience required.
• Confirmed technical knowledge and consultative skills and able to train and disseminate information.
• Knowledge and understanding of networking protocols and technologies
• Verifiable written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years knowledge of any combination of Datacenter, Storage, Compute, Apps, Big Data, Converged Infrastructure, AI infrastructure or Data Center Networking experience
• Excellent presentation skills - ability to deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on Data Center, Cloud, and/or AI topics
• Experience with UCS, Nvidia, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, NetApp, HPE, and/or other AI vendors
• Experience working with and/or supporting containerization technologies (e.g., Docker or equivalent experience) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for scalable and efficient model deployment.
• Experienced in the design and/or deployment of Data Center solutions including traditional DC standalone design, VXLAN and SDN solutions (Cisco ACI, NXOS EVPN)
• Expert level certification in the DCN space; CCNP, CCIE R&S and/or Data Center CCIE certification highly desirable and/or preferred.
  
  

Why Cisco?

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.

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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $203,000.00 to $255,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
  
  

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area

$220,300.00 - $319,200.00

Non-Metro New York State & Washington State

$210,000.00 - $304,300.00

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.