consulting engineer

Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.

Our Consulting Engineers are an integral part of the Customer Experience (CX) team delivering Lifecycle Services to our customers! We combine the power of Cisco Analytics and Knowledge with the outstanding technical expertise and consulting (thats you) to drive value, innovation, and adoption in our customers network. We help them to reduce risk, drive innovation, and enhance their network to meet business objectives. We are the customers trusted advisor and guide, helping the customer understand their network, reduce risks, and take advantage of the technology. We work closely with Cisco Engineering to advocate for innovation for our customer and as a liaison, share what is coming with our customers to help them be the groundbreakers of technology.

Your Impact

This role requires you to be self-motivated, flexible and to be able to balance multiple projects at the same time. As a Consulting Engineer, you will help drive the effort to transform our current and future architecture for our customers. In addition to day-to-day customer activities, training and mentoring other engineers will be required. Bring your creative solutions and be an asset to our team!

Responsibilities

• Engages with customers to create value and deliver outcomes, adoption, and renewals. Proactively collaborates cross-functionally teams to ensure a unified customer experience across the lifecycle
• Provide Day-2 support on Cisco products and solutions for customers, leveraging technical expertise, AI and automation, strategic guidance, and innovative solutions to ensure optimal performance and customer satisfaction
• Serves as a focal point for proactive problem resolution, providing timely support across Cisco technologies
• Develops and delivers technical content and guidance that supports customer engagements, drives solution adoption, and enables customer self-sufficiency
• Creates customer-facing documentation, ensuring deliverables are technically sound, clearly articulated, and aligned with CX standards
• Leverages AI and automation to enhance delivery efficiency, innovation and customer outcomes, while also increasing personal productivity and focus on high-impact work
• Contributes to knowledge sharing and the development of digital intellectual capital, including documentation templates, automation artifacts and other assets that improve Cisco delivery methodology and processes
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical field, such as Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Technology, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
• 1 -2 years of experience in technical consulting, design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Basic knowledge in protocols/features like: Routing protocols (ISIS, OSPF, and certainly BGP), Multicast, and all MPLS technologies: MPLS L3VPN. MPLS L2VPN, EVPN technologies.
• Familiarity with service provider platforms like: ASR9k, NCS5k, NCS500, NCS6k and CRS.
• Experience in installation, configuration, testing and troubleshooting and/or Network solution designing of Cisco routers and switch
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, ability to communicate technology strategy and architecture approach to engineers, executives, and Cisco customers.
• CCNA is must, CCNP desired (Routing & Switching / Service Provider).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to influence, motivate and work in a highly cross-functional matrix environment to drive outcomes based plans, programs and execution.
• Prior experience of conducting customer workshops, High level and low level network design experience would be preferred.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies like SDA/ SDWAN/ACI is preferred
• Knowledge of Nexus Switches is preferred
• AL/ML and Network automation skills preferred (Python/ Ansible/ GoLang/ Splunk)
  
  

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.

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