Jobs at Cisco

Advises telecommunications and service provider executives on data platform, observability, AI, security, and network transformation strategies. Designs architectures spanning telemetry, network and enterprise data, analytics, APIs, and automation; develops prototypes and demonstrates Splunk capabilities. Leads strategic workshops, executive briefings, architecture sessions, and thought leadership while collaborating with sales, engineering, product, partners, and customer success teams.

Partners with enterprise customers to understand requirements, design AI solution architectures, and guide production deployments. Builds integrations, prototypes, reusable tools, and technical assets while troubleshooting complex issues. Leads technical workshops, collaborates with Product and Engineering teams, and shares customer feedback to improve the platform. The role combines software engineering, customer engagement, AI deployment, and scalable solution development.

Design and deploy scalable AI solutions for enterprise customers. Build integrations, prototypes, reusable tools, and production-grade applications; lead technical workshops; troubleshoot complex issues; document best practices; and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to improve the platform based on customer feedback.

Develops technical marketing strategy and content for Cisco NX-OS, Nexus Dashboard, and AI data center networking solutions. Partners with engineering, product management, sales, customers, and partners to define requirements, support pre-sales engagements, deliver demonstrations and training, create collateral, present thought leadership, and gather feedback to improve products and drive adoption.

Supports technical sales for Cisco ThousandEyes by prospecting, demonstrating solutions, guiding customer trials, architecting deployments, and presenting to decision-makers. Builds trusted customer relationships, collaborates with Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, contributes to events and technical content, provides product feedback, and promotes successful adoption and post-sales support.

Leads Cisco’s BFSI sales strategy across India, managing strategic enterprise accounts and teams. Develops go-to-market plans, executive relationships, forecasting, pipeline growth, account strategies, and partner-led selling. Coordinates sales, marketing, finance, operations, product, and technology teams to deliver customer outcomes. Identifies market opportunities, promotes AI-enabled and data-driven selling, represents Cisco externally, and coaches sales talent in a complex, matrixed environment.

Lead product strategy and lifecycle management for Cisco’s service provider mobility portfolio, including packet core, IoT, SaaS, Edge AI, and emerging 5G-to-6G technologies. Own roadmaps, product creation, capacity and release planning, customer requirements, business cases, strategic RFP support, and commercial licensing. Influence cross-functional teams and senior customer executives while aligning technology initiatives with measurable business outcomes.

Lead strategic enterprise sales for Cisco’s service provider portfolio in Mumbai. Own prospecting, account planning, complex negotiations, closing, forecasting, and relationship expansion across telecommunications operators, managed service providers, and digital infrastructure partners. Engage C-level and technical stakeholders, coordinate internal specialists, present technology solutions, monitor market trends, and develop opportunities involving AI, cloud, 5G, networking, and data center transformation.

Partners with sales teams and customers to discover requirements, design Cisco-based cloud, data center, compute, networking, and AI infrastructure solutions, and lead architectures, demonstrations, proofs of concept, workshops, and presentations. Acts as a technical advisor, supports account and opportunity development, and collaborates with partners and portfolio teams across India, APJC, and global engagements.

Owns technical sales for Cisco solutions across strategic customer and partner accounts. Develops account strategies, translates business needs into technical solutions, leads solution design and demonstrations, and influences technical decision-makers. Identifies upsell and cross-sell opportunities, analyzes competitive positioning, coordinates internal sales resources, supports demand-generation efforts, and builds long-term customer relationships to increase revenue and market share.

Provides customer-facing technical leadership for complex Cisco Data Center environments. Resolves Nexus, ACI, UCS, networking, virtualization, and storage issues; conducts root-cause analyses; develops remediation and prevention plans; analyzes operational trends; and coordinates Cisco teams during critical incidents. The role also supports deployments and migrations, delivers technical reviews, maintains executive customer relationships, creates reusable tools and documentation, and occasionally travels for high-impact engagements.

Build and optimize Snowflake and dbt data pipelines with SQL and Python. Design enterprise data engineering and AI solutions involving LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents; manage system integrations and Control-M workflows; and deliver secure, scalable production solutions. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders on platform modernization, data quality, automation, responsible AI, governance, and enterprise adoption.

Leads technical customer success for Splunk security and core platform products. Provides architecture, implementation, configuration, optimization, onboarding, enablement, health remediation, security use-case activation, and strategic consulting. Advises customers and account teams on Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA/UEBA, SOAR, data onboarding, risk analytics, and platform adoption while resolving complex technical challenges and improving customer value realization.

Serves as a customer-facing technical sales professional for enterprise networking solutions. Partners with account managers to plan sales strategies, consult with customers, design solutions, create bills of materials and proposals, deliver presentations and demonstrations, and conduct proof-of-concept activities. Builds preference for Cisco Routing and Switching, Data Center, Security, Automation, Cloud, Collaboration, and IoT offerings while supporting revenue generation and training colleagues.

Provides technical pre-sales leadership for Cisco’s security portfolio. Translates customer business requirements into security solutions, creates and presents technical proposals, supports account teams, leads executive consulting presentations, drives major opportunities, and collaborates with product, engineering, and marketing teams. The role requires extensive security pre-sales experience across network, cloud, identity, SASE, AI, content, and advanced threat security technologies.

Provide technical pre-sales support for Cisco security portfolio: design and present tailored security solutions, translate business needs into technical architectures, lead technical presentations, and drive major account opportunities while enabling local teams.

Drive transactional sales within Cisco's SMB segment by qualifying and managing partner- and marketing-generated opportunities, achieving quota, maintaining pipeline hygiene, collaborating with partners and internal sellers, and promoting Cisco SMB and security solutions to close deals.

Lead end-to-end pursuit activities for large, multi-year Service Provider deals in India. Drive sales strategy, executive engagement, business value creation (ROI/TCO), commercial structures, and cross-functional orchestration to align product, software, services, finance, legal, and partners from qualification through closure.

Lead strategic sales for large Indian conglomerates, managing multi-year, high-value deal cycles. Build C-suite relationships, drive cross-portfolio growth by positioning Cisco networking, security, and software-defined solutions, and coordinate cross-functional teams to close complex deals while maintaining accurate pipeline and forecasts.

Serve as trusted technical advisor to strategic partners, design and present end-to-end Cisco Security architectures, lead workshops/POCs/demos, enable partner technical readiness, collaborate with sales and channel teams, and drive partner-led security transformations focused on Zero Trust, SASE, cloud and digital resilience.