Consulting Engineer ; Intern

Consulting Engineer

Meet the Team

As a Consulting Engineer within the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organization, you'll collaborate with your team to gain experience in real-world customer environments, making a tangible impact. Your role involves designing and delivering technology solutions to help Cisco customers achieve their business goals. You can specialize in one of five architectural teams:
Data Center, Cloud, Security, Collaboration, or Enterprise Networking.

Your Impact

As a Consulting Engineer, you'll gain practical experience with groundbreaking technologies and learn through active projects. Cisco values your ideas and encourages innovation. You'll develop your consulting skills while working with diverse customers in retail, healthcare, education, and the public/private sectors to craft and implement the right technical solutions for their business needs, regardless of their stage in the customer journey.

Ability to multi-task, self-start, work in an inclusive team environment and work independently.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to solve technical problems.

Willingness to address new challenges and develop new skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's)

Qualifying education should be in Information Systems, Cyber Security, Computer Networking, Computer Science or Engineering or a related field.

Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship.

Knowledge of IT systems, networking concepts, TCP/IP protocols, network devices and applications, and the OSI model.

Proficient in Python, REST APIs, Automation.

Preferred Qualifications:

Awareness and general understanding of how consumer applications work over the internet (e.g., Browser, Voice/Video calls, Social Networks, Streaming etc.).

Comfortable with Data Analysis, crafting visualizations such as graphs and heatmaps.

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.

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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the…