Jobs at Cisco

Field-based pre-sales Solutions Engineer serving UK regional government customers in Northern England. Builds customer relationships, translates Cisco technologies into strategic solutions, delivers technical presentations and demonstrations, and supports RFP/RFI and bill-of-materials responses. Works across networking, observability, security, collaboration, compute, cloud, and AI portfolios while influencing technical and business stakeholders. Requires 5+ years of customer-facing technical experience and expertise in at least two enterprise technology areas.

Manage strategic relationships with a major UK technology channel partner. Develop joint business plans and go-to-market strategies, grow collaborative sales pipelines, connect partner and Cisco sales teams with technical specialists, and guide partners in adopting SaaS and recurring subscription models. The role requires B2B technology or channel sales experience, UK IT channel knowledge, revenue achievement, and strong consultative communication skills.

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.

Generate pipeline for assigned territories by prospecting, cold-calling, networking, and identifying new enterprise opportunities. Build rapport with prospects, research customer business needs, qualify opportunities using BANT and other sales methodologies, and present actionable business insights. Partner with field sales and technical teams to develop strategic accounts, schedule meetings, and create new business opportunities. The role includes occasional travel for training or meetings and offers a defined path for advancement within sales and marketing.

Generate and qualify enterprise sales opportunities for Splunk solutions by prospecting, cold-calling, researching accounts, building relationships, and creating pipeline. Partner with enterprise sales teams to understand customer challenges, present actionable business insights, apply BANT qualification, and advance opportunities. The role requires strong communication, presentation, organization, objection handling, and knowledge of enterprise IT solutions.

Leads end-to-end enterprise customer projects from discovery through deployment and closeout. Owns scope, schedules, budgets, forecasting, P&L, risks, governance, stakeholder communications, invoicing, and customer satisfaction. Coordinates vendors and statements of work, manages customer onboarding and security requirements, applies Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies, and uses AI and automation to improve delivery, reporting, and risk management.

Serve as a technical sales resource for UK commercial accounts, building customer relationships and guiding opportunities through technical and business validation. Lead presentations, demonstrations, workshops, technical Q&A sessions, proof-of-concepts, and solution integrations. Partner with sales managers to identify customer needs, demonstrate Splunk value, support buying decisions, and maintain opportunity updates in Salesforce. Required knowledge includes operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, and IT architecture.

Interns gain experience in solutions engineering and technical sales by delivering product webinars, discovery calls, presentations, demonstrations, workshops, solution validations, and custom demos. They will answer technical questions, support RFI/RFP responses, recommend Splunk architectures, and manage technical issues throughout the sales cycle. The role requires strong communication, technology interest, problem-solving enthusiasm, fluency in French, German, or Italian, and current university enrollment.

Leads sophisticated Splunk security consulting engagements involving SIEM, SOAR, observability integrations, AI-driven security operations, and automation. Advises CISO and IT leaders, designs and delivers security architectures, supports complex platform issues, establishes documentation standards, mentors technical teams, influences product improvements, and manages strategic customer relationships.

Lead medium- to high-complexity enterprise customer projects through discovery, implementation, delivery, and closeout. Responsibilities include project planning, P&L and resource management, reporting, risk and dependency tracking, customer communication, RFP/SOW coordination, sales alignment, forecasting, and issue remediation. The role requires managing enterprise software or professional services implementations using Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies while partnering with technical teams, sales, customers, and external partners.

Build and operate AI-powered developer tools, agentic workflows, reusable skills, integrations, backend services, and APIs. Integrate AI systems with source control, CI/CD, issue trackers, documentation, and developer environments. Apply evaluation, testing, monitoring, and feedback practices to non-deterministic AI systems while collaborating with developers to improve engineering workflows and platform architecture.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of Tetragon, building Go and eBPF runtime security features, scalable Kubernetes and VM deployments, high-performance event pipelines, and distributed systems. Optimize databases and system performance, participate in architecture and code reviews, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Cisco teams to integrate security intelligence with observability platforms.

Provides pre-sales technical consulting for Cisco enterprise solutions, partnering with account managers to develop sales strategies, proposals, demonstrations, bills of materials, and proof-of-concept activities. Consults with senior customer engineers, designs solutions across networking, data center, security, collaboration, automation, and cloud, creates demand, and aligns Cisco capabilities with customer business goals to generate revenue.

Serve as a technical sales resource for UK commercial accounts by building customer relationships, leading technical discovery, presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concepts. Partner with sales managers to achieve technical wins, validate solutions, support buying decisions, and drive product adoption. Maintain current Splunk expertise and opportunity updates in Salesforce while advising customers on integrations, infrastructure, security, observability, and data solutions.

Lead software security practices across the development lifecycle by building and tuning vulnerability detection tools, triaging findings, prioritizing risks, improving security processes, and partnering with development and security teams. The role includes automating security workflows, evaluating vulnerabilities and mitigations, tracking security metrics, and promoting best practices across product teams.

Lead software security lifecycle improvements by deploying and tuning vulnerability detection tools, triaging findings, prioritizing security risks, and standardizing security processes. Partner with development, release, and Cisco security teams to remediate vulnerabilities, measure security posture, and promote best practices. Automate security workflows using Go, Python, Bash, or Terraform, with opportunities to apply LLMs, fuzzing, DAST, Kubernetes, and cloud security expertise.

Lead the architecture and development of an AI-powered Production Intelligence platform combining SRE, observability, agentic AI, and automated remediation. Build AI agents, MCP integrations, telemetry pipelines, anomaly detection, evaluation frameworks, and safe human-in-the-loop workflows. Define reliability practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and post-incident reviews. Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and coordinate delivery across global application and infrastructure teams.

Partner with UK&I sales leaders to improve productivity through sales enablement programs. Facilitate training, coaching, onboarding, and leadership development; analyze sales indicators; contribute to sales process and product content; coordinate global and regional teams; manage stakeholder relationships; and introduce methodologies, third-party support, and technologies to drive repeatable results.

Lead design and development of Linux kernel functionality for BPF, networking, and security, integrating features into Cilium and Tetragon. Collaborate with engineering, product, customers, and the upstream Linux kernel community to shape technical direction, maintain code quality, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions. The role may also involve presenting work at technical conferences and contributing to engineering best practices.

Lead the evolution and delivery of large-scale distributed systems for Cisco ThousandEyes. Partner with product and engineering leaders, develop integrations with Cisco wireless and security portfolios, apply AI to issue diagnosis and network remediation, mentor engineers, improve developer productivity, and help build and operate complex Internet-scale systems.