Solutions Engineer - Texas - ThousandEyes (Remote)

Cisco • Austin, TX

2d • Remote

About The Position

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences. ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

We are looking for an exceptional Sales Engineer to join our team of super heroes supporting the Texas territory. You will have the opportunity to be the customer interface of an exciting new technology. You will work closely with the sales team presenting ThousandEyes in prospective business opportunities; be instrumental in working with prospects during trials of ThousandEyes to highlight business value; educate prospects, customers and the sales team on ThousandEyes and how it applies to industry trends and business initiatives; and accelerate ThousandEyes growth through expanding market awareness of ThousandEyes and closing business.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Solutions Engineering experience.
• Experience working with application and network protocols, including HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and BGP.
• Experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting, or supporting application and network infrastructure.
• Experience working with unified communications technologies or solutions.
• Experience with application and network performance analysis solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with packet analysis of network and application protocols.
• Experience using at least one scripting language, such as Python, Perl, or JavaScript.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting Apple, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems.
• Experience delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support the technical sales process
• Assist sales in technical prospecting to help uncover opportunities
• Demonstrate solution to showcase capabilities and use-cases
• Build and maintain a technical and trusted advisor relationship with customers
• Support customers during solution trials
• Scope and architect solution deployments
• Present to decision makers during trial wrap-up meetings
• Participate as a member of the Solutions Engineering teams
• Participate on weekly team meetings
• Participate in quarter business review sales meetings
• Present technical topics and successful wins
• Share technical challenges and ways to overcome
• Interact with team to ask questions, share experiences, and exchange ideas
• Help establish and enhance demonstration material showcasing the solution
• Research technical topics impacting the industry to grow as an industry leader
• Interface with Marketing
• Support trade shows and networking events
• Support ThousandEyes Connect events
• Contribute to blog and social media posts
• Suggest and contribute to white-papers and case-studies
• Interface with Product Management and Engineering
• Provide solution feedback from hands-on use and customer interaction
• Provide solution suggestions and enhancements to drive solution strategy
• Participate, drive and provide feedback on internal and external solution beta programs
• Interface with Customer Success
• Coordinate with Customer Success in providing post-sales support (training, deployment, support, etc.)
• Encourage and guide customers to utilize Customer Success as an extension of their NOC to help ensure success

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• 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
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (Non-exempt employees)
• 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) (Exempt employees)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• 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
• annual bonuses
• performance-based incentive pay
• sales target incentive compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed