Systems Engineer

Job Description

What You'll Do

Cisco Canada is looking for Systems Engineer with a strong technical background. The SE will partner with our SE team in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco product solutions. Qualified candidates should bring Cisco technical knowledge and 5 years of on-the-job support experience to aid in technical selling, explaining features and benefits to customers-and designing and configuring products to meet specific customer needs.

In this role, you will have direct opportunity and partner responsibilities for selected accounts in an assigned geography. You’ll be using Cisco products in Toronto’s Field Lab and virtual environment to demo solutions to customers and partners. Staying up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products and services is important. Candidate will focus on technical presentations and/or demos for customers, partners and prospects.

In addition, you will:

* Work alongside technology experts to help them position the solution effectively against competing offerings.

* have a level of comfort communicating across all functions within Cisco, as well as, Cisco Customers and Cisco Partners.

* build and present Cisco product, technology and solutions information to a range of internal and external audiences.

* Serve as a leader in communication between account team members.

* Support tactical opportunities (i.e. Product configurations, documentation, Lunch-n-Learns, etc.) and adapts existing Cisco solutions that address a specific customer/partner need.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco Canada Sales is on a journey of Transformation. This journey will result in a Transformation of the experience for our customers, partners, stakeholders and employees, driving higher relevance and stronger business results for Cisco.

Our Sales organization, which leverages virtual technology to grow revenue and build relationships with customers and partners, is adapting our sales coverage to help accelerate new areas of the business.

Part of a unique SE Team, you will benefit from the knowledge of your peers while you drive the local impact to the business. Our team owns the pre-sales technical sales responsibilities and relies on you to cover all aspects of sales opportunities. You will be a key player to focus on the strategic opportunities on the territory covered by your team and enable growth.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

* BA in Engineering, Computer software or technical program (or equivalent).

* Completion of Cisco Certification program is an asset.

2-5 years of Cisco products/services experience.

* Strong understanding of SaaS & Cloud Networking.

* Experience supporting technical sales opportunities.

* Strong knowledge in one of the following: Security, Enterprise Networks, Collaboration, Data Center and Virtualization

* Fluent in English is mandatory, fluent French is an asset.

Why Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.