Engineer - Pre Sales and Product Management
Job Type: Professional
Technology Interest: AI or Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & AI (DCN & Compute)
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- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Work Authorisation for Australia: Must be authorised to work in Australia without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
Meet the Team
The Cloud + AI Infrastructure team delivers one scalable strategy with local execution for data centre customer transformation and growth. We are the worldwide go-to-market compute and data centre networking engine gathering market transitions and allowing sellers to expand growth for customers and Cisco. Alongside our colleagues, Cloud & AI Infrastructure builds the sales strategy, activates sellers and technical communities, and accelerates selling.
Your Impact
We are seeking a Solutions Engineer to join the newly formed ANZ Compute and Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure (CAI) team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing technical relationships with our NSW Enterprise, Commercial and Public Sector customers; your ultimate aim: to become a trusted advisor who consults on technical design and architectures and influences technology transformation decisions.
As a Cloud and AI Infrastructure Solutions Engineer, you will work closely with various account teams to discover, define, develop, and design Compute and AI Infrastructure solutions to meet customer business needs. You will help position data center virtualization and systems architecture solutions effectively against competing offerings. You will be passionate about presales engineering activities, demonstrating solutions and architectures in Cloud and AI infrastructure. You will need to travel as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6+ years of technical presales experience selling Data Centre and Hybrid Cloud solutions including Compute and Data Centre Switching.
- Deep understanding of Data Centre network and compute architectural designs.
- Deep knowledge of Data Centre enterprise applications, virtualisation technologies and operational toolsets.
- Excellent presentation skills - ability to deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience; advanced degree is a plus.
- Cisco Certifications (CCNA, CCNP or CCIE)
- Knowledge of Cisco Nexus, ACI and UCS solutions.
- Understanding of AI architectures and infrastructure products.
- Experience designing Converged infrastructure and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions.
- Proficiency with automation tool sets (Ansible, Terraform) with a strong focus on DC switching and compute.
- Foundational software development skills e.g. Python.
- Demonstrates proactive leadership with a team-oriented attitude.
- Self-starter who can lead opportunities without close supervision.
- Hold a continuous learning philosophy, able to navigate ambiguity and complex customer challenges.
- Cultivates relationships within multiple layers of an organisation and promotes an 'I can' attitude.
- Creative problem solver who enjoys asking 'imagine if ' questions and is willing to take calculated risks.
Why Cisco?
With Cisco, you're not just embracing the future - you're helping create it. We are focused on integrating AI into our solutions to transform collaboration, security, networking, observability, and more. Our extensive data sets and broad customer reach mean limitless possibilities for you to build impactful AI solutions that solve a wide array of real-world problems.
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