Solutions Engineer, Innovation & Enablement I&MI

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Location: The ideal candidate will be located in TX.

The Innovation and Enablement team have a charter to design, develop, and deliver innovative solution demonstrations that showcase the capabilities and benefits of technologies delivered by I&MI.

We work closely with the Sales Leadership, PSE/DSE, BU and Product Marketing teams to define these demonstrations.

We complement these demonstrations with enablement content to educate and enable internal teams and third-party to help them adopt Cisco solutions effectively and grow Cisco sales.

The team is comprised of talented engineers with diverse experience levels and areas of expertise. With a global presence, the team operates around 2 main lab environment one in Richardson Texas, another in Vimercate (Italy).

We are looking to enhance the existing team with a strong IP Routing and Optical Solution specialist. This is to support the planned growth in Non-Service Provider business but also to strengthen the Service Provider work we do in the AMER region.

You will play a critical role in working with the field sales teams to ensure the I&E Team are delivering state of the art demonstration of Cisco IP Routing and Optical technologies to customers in Federal, Government, Defence, Finance and other Critical Network customers. This role includes bringing up customer specific solutions in the I&E labs, DCloud, as well as driving automation and manual test cases on validating the solution.

You will collaborate globally with PSE/DSE leaders, Sales team and BU development teams to ensure alignment and understanding of the I&MI IP Routing and Optical Solutions.

You will also…

• Design, configure and automate field use cases based on IOS-XR, other routing platforms and Optical solutions

• Develop innovative solutions tools to support the sales of I&MI solutions.

• Drive enablement for IP Routing and Optical solutions into the Field and Partner sales and technical community.

• Bachelors in STEM with 8+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 6+ years of relevant experience.

• Experience designing or configuring the following L2/L3 networking protocols;
  Segment Routing, BGP, MPLS and IGP (OSPF or ISIS)

• Experience in Optical solutions (DCO, OLS, EDFA…)

• Experience in networking automation or assurance

• Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center).

• Experience on platforms such as ASR9K, NCS
  5500, NCS
  5000, NCS
  540/NCS
  560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000 IP routing solutions.

• Experience with DCO, NCS
  1010, NCS
  1014,NCS
  2000 optical solutions.

• Experience of Crosswork Solution Suite: HCO, CNC, ONC, etc…

• Experience with Open Flow, Netconf & REST API.

• Expertise in UNIX/Linux environments and Bash/Unix Shell Scripting, with experience in configuring/fixing protocols such as L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & Open Config Yang Models

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