Job Description

Meet the Team
Join our multifaceted Public Sector System Engineering team in Ahmedabad, where you'll help build and implement innovative communication and application solutions for India's State government departments. You'll work with a hard-working, customer-focused team that transforms creative ideas into impactful, real-world solutions, all while enjoying an encouraging and inspiring environment with outstanding opportunities for growth and community impact.
Your Impact
As a Solutions Engineer you will orchestrate involvement of all technical activities and resources, holding accountabilities for all opportunities within assigned account(s) and provide architectural perspective across the Cisco product portfolio, including software and services.

• Serve as a technical sales consultant and trusted advisor to customers.
• Orchestrate Cisco resources to ensure technical success throughout the sales lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with Account Managers and internal teams to deliver driven, customer-focused solutions.
• Provide experienced mentorship on solution build, implementation, and Cisco differentiation.
• Build positive relationships with engineering teams, business units, partners, and customers across multiple technology domains.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor of Engineering degree or equivalent. with 12 years of presales experience in a technical position

• Shown experience in solution selling with Cisco products and technologies.
• Highly motivated, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies.
• Broad understanding of end-to-end architecture with expertise in areas such as enterprise networks, data center, or security.
• Strong communication, whiteboarding, and presentation skills for effective customer engagement.
• Skilled in value-based selling, handling objections, and possessing solid technical knowledge in networking, SDN, network security, and data center technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with the Public Sector customers in similar roles.
• Technical certifications in any of the areas like Networking/Security/Cloud

#WeAreCisco
At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

Skills Required