System Architect - Production Network, Google/WEB

Why You Will Love Cisco

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What You'll Do

Cisco seeks a results-oriented and driven pre-sales Systems Architect (SA) to lead a co-development engineering engagement with a large hyper-scale customer. This is a highly technical (pre-sales) position that supports the sales organization so you must run all the technical aspects of pre-sales activities including next-generation hardware and software. This position includes post-sales support, being responsible for presenting, demonstrating, crafting solutions, feature planning, and organization to pursue the specific needs of one of the most influential companies in the world. In order to do this optimally, you should be highly accomplished with:

• The latest on relevant solutions, products and services
• Translate customer requests into engineering specific documents
• Perform technical presentations for customers and internal audiences
• Coordinate and prioritize detailed data for customer review
• Automation with Python or Golang
• Netconf/YANG/OpenConfig
• Linux/BSD Systems
• SP networking designs
• Network Hardware Architecture
• Compute Hardware Architecture
• Routing Protocols
• QoS
• MPLS
• IOS-XR
• Segment Routing

You will work with Cisco's latest silicon architectures for hyper-scale production networks, helping influence the direction of our software. You will be surrounded by proven pre-sales engineers and business unit leaders eager to address the daring demands of your customer.

Who You Are

You are a creative individual always looking for ways to improve a system. You are constantly finding patterns in-process and offering solutions to advance them. You are as comfortable in a spreadsheet as you are discussing the latest customer requirements and demonstrating them in code or cli. You are eager to boost customers' overall happiness by clarifying details.

You have at least 5 years of networking/architecture and field experience working with named accounts as a Systems Engineer/Systems Architect or equivalent.

• Highly Organized
• Strong Communications talent in making sophisticated simple
• Ability to build relevant customer relationships
• BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent
• An understanding of networking hardware and software
• Practical knowledge of network architecture
• The ideal candidate's interpersonal, presentation and troubleshooting skills evoke passion and confidence.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case-by-case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.