Technical Marketing Engineer - Technical Leader

The application window is expected to close on: July 30th 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team:

We are seeking a highly-motivated Technical Marketing Engineer Technical Leader to join Ciscos Cloud & Network Security Product organization!

Youll be part of a fast-paced dynamic team in an exciting environment, working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Product Marketing, UI/UX, and Sales Engineering to help drive the strategy, design, and deployment of Ciscos security product family.

Your Impact:

We are looking for someone who can work with passionate teams to develop clear solutions to complex customer problems and comfortable in a highly distributed team environment. Its in our culture to learn, adapt and improve, so youll be open to trying new things.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a team who are passionate about delivering new security capabilities to customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+yrs Experience and Deep understanding of segmentation and emerging technology like eBFP, workload protection, vulnerability assessment.
• CCNP security, CISSP/CCSP, CCIE or other security/networking certification/s.
• Design scalable, highly available secure network design for Local Area Network (LAN) , Wide Area Network (WAN), Data Center and Cloud.
• Design secure network enclaves based enterprise architecture for cloud, intranet and extranet to protect critical assets.
• Design and implement secure data communication across network elements and critical assets as per industry standards and Security Best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical Acuity: You are comfortable setting up demo/lab environments and troubleshooting/overcoming issues in various network, endpoint, and cloud architectures.
• Communication: You have a proven record of explaining new, ground-breaking solutions to enterprise customers-both the strategic benefits and practical use cases. You enjoy speaking publicly to audiences of all sizes both technical and non-technical and are equally comfortable in person or in a webcast/video.
• Curiosity: You believe that creativity and growth start with a curiosity and humility, and asking thoughtful questions.
• Attitude & Ambition: The best candidates are inquisitive, hard-working, driven, and not afraid to fail. They are a team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, were revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. Weve 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 youll 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.

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidates hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Ciscos flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Ciscos Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.