Solutions Engineer
- Al Wakrah, Qatar
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Meet the Team
As a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, you will work closely with the Service Provider Sales team to identify the needs one of Cisco’s most strategic Service Provider accounts in Qatar, demonstrate Cisco solutions, and design tailored products that drive digital transformation. You will provide expert technical guidance focused on customer success and aligned outcomes, while enjoying the flexibility to handle your work in a way that delivers the best results for both the customer and your team. This role requires solution engineer who combines, Enterprise networking, Data Center architecture solutions with strong AI, automation capable of guiding customers toward fully autonomous, AI-driven networks.
Your Impact
As a Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Cisco's leadership by acting as a trusted technical advisor and solution architect. Your expertise will be crucial in translating service provider objectives into comprehensive, impactful architecture and solution strategies across Cisco’s diverse portfolio. Serve as the technical lead within the account team, building trusted advisor relationships with senior IT and business leaders.
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.
As a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, you will work closely with the Service Provider Sales team to identify the needs one of Cisco’s most strategic Service Provider accounts in Qatar, demonstrate Cisco solutions, and design tailored products that drive digital transformation. You will provide expert technical guidance focused on customer success and aligned outcomes, while enjoying the flexibility to handle your work in a way that delivers the best results for both the customer and your team. This role requires solution engineer who combines, Enterprise networking, Data Center architecture solutions with strong AI, automation capable of guiding customers toward fully autonomous, AI-driven networks.
Your Impact
As a Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Cisco's leadership by acting as a trusted technical advisor and solution architect. Your expertise will be crucial in translating service provider objectives into comprehensive, impactful architecture and solution strategies across Cisco’s diverse portfolio. Serve as the technical lead within the account team, building trusted advisor relationships with senior IT and business leaders.
- Own the end-to-end technology vision and architecture, spanning Service Provider networks, Data Center, Cloud, Automation, Cybersecurity and AI driven operations.
- Lead the design of large-scale, highly scalable Data Center, Enterprise Networking architectures, aligned with future autonomous networking models.
- Lead AI-driven network transformation initiatives, including:
- Applying AI/ML and LLM models to network operations, assurance, planning, and optimization
- Positioning Agentic AI for closed-loop decision making, intent execution, and self-healing networks
- Integrating AI capabilities across transport, Data Center, cloud and cybersecurity domains
- Articulate and demonstrate the business impact of AI on network efficiency, cost optimization, resilience, and customer experience.
- Lead network automation and orchestration strategy, with deep expertise in DNA Center, Nexus Dashboard, Cisco Intersight and Cisco Crosswork Automation portfolio
- Collaborate with account teams, product leaders, and executives to influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and long-term transformation strategy.
- Develop and present high-impact technical proposals, architectures, and demonstrations.
- Drive proof of concepts (POCs), pilots, and solution validation to accelerate decision-making and adoption.
- 5+ years of proven experience in presales, consultative, or solution architect roles, demonstrating a proven presales track record in designing and deploying solutions, particularly in routing, switching, data center and cloud.
- Technical expertise in:
- Scalable, AI-ready Data Center architecture including compute, storage solutions (Cisco or 3rd party), data center networking, Cisco ACI
- Enterprise network architectures using Cisco routing, switching and wireless solutions, SD-WAN, SASE, modern AI Ops/ML Ops, and programming/scripting capabilities.
- Service provider network architecture spanning Access, transport, Data center, and Internet with related technologies.
- Strong AI and automation expertise, including:
- Applied understanding of AI/ML models for networking use cases such as assurance, optimization, planning, and predictive operations
- Architectural or hands-on knowledge of LLM-based systems for operational insights, automation, and decision support
- Experience designing or positioning Agentic AI frameworks to enable closed-loop, intent-based, and autonomous network operations
- Strong understanding of Cisco technologies and architecture, with proven cross-architecture experience to translate client objectives into comprehensive solutions across Cisco’s full portfolio.
- Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences, coupled with strong executive-level communication skills.
- Solid experience engaging directly with customers, applying consultative selling techniques, understanding financial pain points, and aligning solutions with customer business models to drive value realization and adoption.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Cisco certifications (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, CCIE) or equivalent vendor credentials.
- Experience in Enterprise networking solutions: campus and branch, secure network architecture, access, wireless, wide area network, visibility and monitoring solutions
- Understanding of data center technologies: hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud computing and networking, Data center fabric, servers, unified edge, SDN controller,
- High level understanding of Service Provider Routing and Transport, including SR-MPLS and SRv6, Mobility, 5G Core network design and evolution
- Ability to work effectively, add value as a team member, and assume a proactive approach to your career, demonstrating a growth mindset and adaptability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and strong presentation skills.
- Experience in Qatar market is highly desirable, with Arabic language proficiency considered a significant plus.
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.