Lead Solutions Engineer

🔥 22 hours ago

🌐 United Kingdom, Germany, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead a specialized engineering organization operating like a high-growth start-up • Recruit, lead, develop, inspire, and retain a high-performing, diverse team of Solution Engineers across EMEA & APJC • Lead the technical go-to-market strategy for Hypershield and Isovalent • Partner with Sales and Product leadership to define and complete the technical go-to-market strategy • Accelerate early-adopter customer acquisition • Serve as an executive technical sponsor and build trusted advisor relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects • Champion the end-to-end “See-Try-Buy” lifecycle, optimizing POV velocity, private previews, and multi-architectural proof-of-value trials • Act as the strategic field bridge to Engineering • Channel competitive intelligence and technical feature gaps into the product development lifecycle • Drive rapid market adoption, influence product roadmaps, and build trusted C-level relationships

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales engineering experience in enterprise network security, cloud security, or data center infrastructure • 3+ years of formal people leadership or senior technical mentorship managing geographically distributed teams • Deep architectural mastery of micro-segmentation strategies, container security/orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) • Strong foundational knowledge of modern data center networking, firewalls, distributed dataplanes (eBPF/DPDK), and network segmentation • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • Experience leading technical 'incubation' or 'start-up' sales motions for innovative enterprise technologies • Deep competitive expertise in micro-segmentation and workload security (e.g., Illumio, Guardicore/Akamai, VMware NSX, Palo Alto, Fortinet) • Familiarity with global regulatory/compliance frameworks (e.g., NIS2, DORA, GDPR, sovereign cloud requirements) • Working knowledge of DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines, microservices, serverless computing, and CI/CD security controls • Regional language proficiencies (e.g., German, French, Spanish, Arabic)

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities to grow and build • Cisco’s global resources, enterprise market leadership, and unmatched scale • Worldwide network of experts and collaboration on a global scale

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