Solutions Engineer - Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Cisco
London, Glasgow, Reading, Manchester
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Presentation skills","Public speaking","Customer communication","Translating technical concepts","Trusted technical advising"]

Help drive adoption of Cisco data center, cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure solutions by partnering with customers to understand modernization goals and design tailored platform architectures. Deliver technical demonstrations and communicate value to diverse audiences, contributing to architectural discussions and solving customer challenges. Work with the Cloud + AI Infrastructure team and sales organization across UK&I, with occasional travel for customer meetings and industry events.

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Solutions Engineer - Cloud & AI Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Help drive adoption of Cisco data center, cloud, and AI-ready infrastructure solutions by partnering with customers to understand modernization goals and design tailored platform architectures. Deliver technical demonstrations and communicate value to diverse audiences, contributing to architectural discussions and solving customer challenges. Work with the Cloud + AI Infrastructure team and sales organization across UK&I, with occasional travel for customer meetings and industry events.
Location: London, Glasgow, Reading, Manchester
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with customers to understand modernization goals and support the design of tailored platform architectures.
  • •Demonstrate how Cisco compute, networking, and cloud-native technologies accelerate customer business outcomes.
  • •Build awareness and drive education on platform modernization, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-ready data centers.
  • •Act as the technical link between technical teams, account teams, and partners/customers.
  • •Contribute to architectural discussions and play a key role in designing and promoting modernization solutions to solve customer challenges.
Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of technical presales, solutions engineering, or hands-on infrastructure experience across compute, storage, and data center networking.
  • •Hands-on experience with virtualization and platform modernization (e.g., VMware/VCF, RedHat OpenShift, Nutanix, KVM, hypervisor migration strategies).
  • •Enterprise storage familiarity (e.g., NVMe, NFS, object storage; NetApp, Everpure, or comparable).
  • •Solid data center networking fundamentals (L2/L3, VXLAN/EVPN, fabric design) and how compute, storage, and network integrate.
  • •Foundational Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure concepts, plus infrastructure automation/scripting (Python, Ansible, Terraform) and version control (Git/GitHub).
Experience:3+ years
Skills:Presentation skillsPublic speakingCustomer communicationTranslating technical conceptsTrusted technical advising
Certifications:CCNP/CCIE Data CenterVMware VCPCKA/CKADMajor cloud associate/professional certs
Tech Stack:VMwareVCFRedHat OpenShiftNutanixKVMHypervisor migrationNVMeNFSObject storageNetAppEverpureVXLANEVPNFabric designKubernetesPythonAnsibleTerraformGitGitHub

Company Brief

Cisco
Global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products for enterprises, service providers, and governments worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1984
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