Jobs at Cisco

Leads Cisco’s distributed Solutions Engineering organization across EMEA and APJC. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing regional engineers, defining technical go-to-market strategy, advising executive customers, accelerating proof-of-value trials, partnering with Sales and Product leadership, and channeling field intelligence into engineering. Requires extensive technical pre-sales experience in enterprise security or infrastructure, people leadership, and expertise in micro-segmentation, container security, cloud platforms, networking, and distributed dataplanes.

Develop and review Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise codebases. Deliver roadmap features, troubleshoot and fix bugs, maintain production-quality software, and collaborate on distributed systems architecture including cluster mesh. Integrate with datacenter networking protocols while upholding engineering, code quality, and operational excellence practices.

Leads Customer Success Managers across commercial and enterprise segments, driving customer adoption, retention, renewals, expansion, and recurring revenue metrics. Develops team talent, manages customer health and risk, advises executive stakeholders, and partners with Product, Technical Account Management, Sales, Renewals, and Engineering teams to improve outcomes and grow the ThousandEyes platform footprint.

Leads complex, customer-facing programs from initiation through closure, managing scope, budgets, forecasts, quality, risks, governance, partners, contracts, and executive stakeholders. The role aligns Cisco delivery teams with customer outcomes, drives continuous improvement through AI and automation, identifies expansion opportunities, and mentors project teams. It requires strong enterprise financial management, cross-functional program leadership, delivery governance, and PMP certification.

Marketing intern supporting campaigns, demand generation, content, brand, product, digital and social media, events, operations, and marketing analytics. The role includes collaborating with marketing leaders and fellow interns, developing project plans, completing a business-relevant group project, networking, and building communications and marketing skills in a hybrid environment.

Supports Cisco’s UK and Ireland Government Affairs team by researching policy and regulatory developments, tracking parliamentary activity, preparing briefings and stakeholder materials, coordinating meetings and events, and summarizing conferences and hearings. The intern will help identify government engagement opportunities, monitor issues affecting the technology industry, and explore AI-enabled workflow improvements while developing practical experience in public policy and government relations.

Own the design, testing, delivery, and governance of Kubernetes-based microservices configurations. Build reusable Helm-based configurations, manage GitOps deployments with Argo CD, implement progressive delivery, autoscaling, resiliency, secrets management, observability, and disaster recovery. Improve platform self-service through Backstage while ensuring secure, compliant, and reproducible deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

Supports pre-sales opportunities by translating customer needs into tailored Cisco services solutions. Partners with Sales and Solution Development Architects on lifecycle and transformation opportunities, RFPs, RFIs, presentations, and business development. Builds customer and internal relationships, explains technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders, and develops expertise across networking, security, cloud, data center, and AI technologies.

Build intuitive, high-performing frontend experiences for troubleshooting network issues and analyzing endpoint data. Develop user-facing features with a frontend focus while contributing to APIs, data flows, and backend services. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver reliable and accessible solutions, process high-volume real-time data, and strengthen full-stack capabilities across the application.

Develop and scale backend systems for endpoint data ingestion, aggregation, and storage. Design distributed, event-driven services that handle asynchronous, high-volume workloads, improve reliability and performance, and translate network telemetry into customer insights. Participate in on-call rotations, resolve production incidents, and collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams on resilient product capabilities.

Design, build, test, and operate real-time streaming data solutions using Spark and Flink. Develop agentic workflows, AI tool integrations, backend services, MCP components, and secure APIs. Apply large-scale data processing to telemetry, contribute to AI platform architecture, and improve engineering processes, documentation, and operational practices.

Advises Cisco on privacy, data protection, AI governance, and digital regulations across EMEA. Responsibilities include GDPR compliance, privacy-by-design reviews, DPIAs, international data transfers, AI Act and NIS2 guidance, customer data agreements, regulatory inquiries, and employee privacy matters. The counsel also partners with product, government affairs, legal, HR, and works councils to manage regulatory risk and enable commercial activity.

Owns services sales strategy and growth across strategic accounts, leading complex 6–18-month deals valued from $500K to over $5M. Develops and closes new, renewal, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities for premium services. Builds customer and partner relationships, collaborates with account and specialist teams, improves forecasting and sales processes, and drives lifecycle selling, service adoption, and recurring revenue growth.

Own Cisco’s technical relationship with Amazon, leading consultative sales, solution design, demonstrations, technical validation, and complex networking architecture strategies. Advise Amazon leaders on networking, UCS, security, observability, automation, hybrid cloud, and connectivity. Collaborate with Cisco teams and partners, influence technical decisions, drive competitive displacement and revenue growth, resolve escalations, and shape strategic infrastructure initiatives. The role requires extensive technical sales or network architecture experience and travel up to 50%.

Design, build, test, and operate AI-powered developer tools, agentic workflows, backend services, APIs, and integrations. The role involves applying software engineering practices to AI evaluation, monitoring, reliability, and feedback loops; collaborating with developers; and evolving an internal AI development platform. Work includes integrations with source control, CI/CD, issue trackers, documentation systems, and developer environments.

Generate net-new pipeline across EMEA by researching enterprise accounts and engaging senior security and IT decision-makers through cold calling, multi-channel prospecting, and personalized outreach. Qualify customer security requirements, overcome objections, and schedule discovery meetings for Account Executives and Security Specialists. Build knowledge of Cisco Security solutions, enterprise buying cycles, and sales methodologies while developing toward future Account Executive or Specialist roles.

Advise EMEA customers on secure connectivity and enterprise transformation. Develop SASE architecture roadmaps, align executives on networking and security strategies, lead demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-value engagements, and architect solutions spanning SD-WAN, SSE, Zero Trust, cloud, identity, and observability. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence innovation and enable strategic partners during customer engagements and sales cycles.

Designs enterprise data architecture, warehouses, lakes, pipelines, governance frameworks, and quality standards for high-volume productivity data. Builds semantic models, certified datasets, dashboards, and AI-enabled BI solutions using Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake. Advises on data security, privacy, access controls, masking, tokenization, and PII classification while collaborating with engineers and business stakeholders to deliver actionable insights.

Own technical customer and partner relationships, advise IT decision-makers, design and present Cisco solutions, support complex sales cycles, identify expansion opportunities, manage sales processes, and provide market feedback. The role requires expertise across networking, security, observability, or collaboration architectures, executive communication, consultative selling, and cross-functional coordination.

Manage a portfolio of UK university accounts, building executive relationships, leading complex sales cycles, coordinating solution resources, identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and selling Cisco networking and security solutions. The role also requires technical demonstrations, CRM funnel management, sales forecasting, stakeholder alignment, and delivering revenue commitments.