Solutions Engineer - US Federal

Drive Relevancy: Lead the presales efforts of Cisco's Cloud and AI Infrastructure solutions across Federal government sectors by identifying potential clients and tailoring AI solutions to meet their specific needs.

Technical Expertise: Be the expert in technical conversations. Demonstrate a deep understanding of Data Center and AI Compute, Storage, and Networking to design and showcase solutions that enhance business operations.

Presales Engineering: Engage in presales activities including demonstrations, workshops, architecture discussions, and design creations to highlight the value of Cisco's Cloud and AI Infrastructure offerings.

Who You'll Work With

Collaborate with the broader Federal Cloud + AI Infrastructure team, which focuses on transforming and growing data center customers by developing scalable strategies and enabling sellers to drive growth.

Work closely with your Account Executive to develop an effective go to market strategy.

Drive product placement strategy with Portfolio Account teams, customer technical and leadership teams ensuring alignment and successful solution creation.

Who You Are

You are responsible for building awareness, fostering education, and driving enthusiasm for AI among internal and external sales team members, partners, and customers. You will serve as a link between technical teams, account teams, executives, and partners/customers. Additionally, you will showcase AI solutions/products, highlight their potential, and promote their tactical and technical responsibilities. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and promoting AI solutions while addressing challenges.

Minimum Qualifications:

• *** This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The successful applicant must have a current US Government TS with SCI eligibility***
• 6+ years knowledge of any combination of Datacenter Networking, Storage, Compute, Apps, Big Data, Converged, Hyper Converged and AI infrastructure experience
• Seeking significant experience with end-to-end architecture/design work across multiple technology areas for DC and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Experience in public, hybrid, and private cloud computing and architecture, along with expertise in Virtualization, X86 Architectures, or Operating Systems.
• 8+ years in architecting and deploying of networking, compute, or storage technologies. Experience in the design and deployment of Data Center solutions, including traditional DC standalone networking designs, spine and leaf architectures.
• 5+ years of experience in supporting the US Government in a pre or post sales consulting capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure (RS) / CCIE Data Center
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Advanced degree is a plus.
• Excellent presentation skills - ability to deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on AI topics
• AI experience with Nvidia, VAST, Pure, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, NetApp, HPE, and/or other AI vendors.
• Knowledge of how compute and network infrastructure plays a critical role in enabling AI workloads.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker or equivalent experience) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for scalable and efficient model deployment.

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