Solutions Engineer - UAE

Meet the Team:

Join Cisco’s Solutions Engineering Team in the UAE

At Cisco UAE, our Solutions Engineering team operates at the center of customer strategy and innovation. We combine deep technical expertise with strong eye for business to help customers solve complex challenges and drive measurable outcomes across networking, security, cloud, and emerging architectures.

This role is designed for highly experienced experts who can operate as technical leaders and strategic advisors, shaping customer direction and influencing long-term outcomes.

Your Impact:

 As a Solutions Engineer, you will act as a trusted technical leader for strategic customers, leading the technical relationship and influencing both business and technology decisions.

You will:

• Lead complex, cross-architecture solution strategies across networking, security, and cloud
• Define and drive multi-year account strategies aligned to business and financial outcomes
• Engage at executive level, translating technology into business value
• Deliver high-impact demos, workshops, and strategic engagements
• Drive value realization, adoption, and measurable customer outcomes
• Orchestrate collaboration across Sales, CX, Partners, and Engineering
• Contribute to thought leadership, market positioning, and demand generation

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of total experience, including 5+ years in pre-sales / solutions engineering
• Consistent track record handling large, complex, multi-year customer engagements
• Strong experience across UAE / GCC markets (Arabic is a strong plus)
• Ability to operate in multicultural and high-stakes environments
• Experience working within and demonstrating partner ecosystems
• Deep cross-architecture experience across networking, security, and cloud
• Strong understanding of:
  • SD-WAN, SASE, ACI, DNA
  • Cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • CI/CD, automation, DevOps practices
  • AI Ops / ML Ops concepts
• Working knowledge of programming / scripting (e.g., Python)
• Broad expertise across public cloud and hybrid architectures
• Strong consultative selling approach
• Experience developing and executing account strategies
• Proven involvement in demand generation and opportunity shaping
• Ability to understand and articulate customer financial drivers and business models
• Focus on value realization, adoption, and measurable outcomes
• Ability to lead cross-architecture designs and engagements
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills
• Experience enabling customers, partners, and internal teams
• Proven collaboration with CX, partners, and engineering organizations
• Active contribution to thought leadership and market visibility
• Growth mindset with continuous learning
• High adaptability and ownership
• Strong collaborator in multicultural environments
• Outcome-driven, with focus on impact over activity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry-recognized certifications (e.g., CCIE, CISSP, or equivalent).
• Experience leading multi-functional virtual teams in a global technology environment.
• Deep domain expertise in specific industry verticals (e.g., Finance, Government, Healthcare).
• Advanced understanding of competitive market tactics and strategic sales methodologies.

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. 

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