Leader, Solutions Engineer

In this leadership role, you will steer a high-growth, globally distributed Solutions Engineering team focused on Hypershield and Isovalent technologies. You’ll shape the technical GTM strategy, build executive credibility with CISOs and CIOs, and accelerate early-adopter adoption. You’ll influence product direction by surfacing competitive insights and guiding architectural discussions. This is about driving rapid market impact at scale within Cisco’s Global Security Sales Organization.

• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing, geographically distributed Solution Engineer team in EMEA & APJC
• Define and execute the technical go-to-market strategy with Sales and Product leadership
• Act as executive technical sponsor, building trusted advisory relationships with CISOs, CIOs, and Platform Architects
• Champion the end-to-end See-Try-Buy lifecycle, optimizing velocity and multi-architectural proof-of-value trials
• Serve as strategic field bridge to Engineering, feeding competitive intelligence into product development

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales engineering in enterprise network security, cloud security, or data center infrastructure
• 3+ years of formal people leadership managing geographically distributed teams
• Deep architectural mastery of micro-segmentation, 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

• leadership of distributed teams
• executive sponsorship and stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• micro-segmentation
• container security/orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker)
• cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)