Leader, Solutions Engineer (USPS)

Application window expected to close on 8/5/25

Locations: NY, Raleigh, NC, Boston, MA, GA, SC, FL (not Mid-Atlantic)

Meet the Team

We have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team as a Solutions Engineering Leader within our Global Security Sales Organization! We are searching for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial-minded technical sales leader who has a passion for delivering elite technology and services to protect our customers using capabilities delivered from the network, endpoint, and SaaS offerings for any cloud. This is an ideal position for someone who has validated leadership skills and related industry and technical expertise, to drive success with their team and regional peers. This role requires an ambitious, self-starter with the ability to build executive relationships, develop and execute sales strategies, articulate Cisco’s business value and technical capabilities, and drive the activities that makes deals happen.

Your Impact

In this role as a Security Solutions Engineering Leader, you will work closely with customers, partners, and regional leaders in the Americas US Public Sector SLED East team, to develop and execute sales strategies that drive growth within the region. As part of the leadership team, you will partner with Security Sales Leadership and demonstrate both technical and business excellence, to meet revenue goals in the region.

As a technical leader, you will lead and mentor a highly motivated sales engineering team that has a passion to bring transformative technology to life for our customers and partners. You and your team will develop solutions using the breadth of our Cisco security portfolio for any environment using our Identity, Cloud, Network, and XDR capabilities. You are responsible for the recruitment and development of your team, as well as performance management and development of them, to position Cisco's security solutions effectively against competitive offerings and be trusted advisors for our customers and cross-functional teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 2+ Years of pre-sales engineering leadership or comparable leadership experience

- 3+ Years of experience working with US Public Sector SLED and/or FED sales organizations in a pre-sales capacity or comparable experience with large enterprise and commercial customer base.

- 6+ Years of experience as a pre-sales engineer

- Ability to articulate security architecture integrated with other technologies (cloud, networking, datacenter)

- Demonstrated experience aligning go to market initiatives to trends in the security industry

- Show a consistent record of accomplishment of high performance and strong leadership skills

- Demonstrated experience in a metric-based sales process with a mindset for accelerating growth

Preferred Qualifications:

- BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent is highly preferred

- Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, and demonstrated knowledge of the Cisco Security portfolio

- Working knowledge of the Splunk portfolio and ability to articulate its value alongside Cisco Security capabilities

- Knowledge of cyber security trends in the market and customer space, including new products and solutions

- Strong collaboration, influencing and facilitation skills, have proven ability to influence and lead outside of organization and across roles and functions

- Ability to provide thought leadership to customers and partners based on short and long-term business and industry drivers.

- Strong executive presence and proven ability to present strategic information to a wide range of audiences

Why Cisco?

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.