Jobs at Cisco

Lead gross margin planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis with emphasis on cloud infrastructure costs. Manage and analyze AWS/Azure/GCP spending, build financial models and operational metrics for cloud consumption and product-level profitability, partner with Engineering/Product/Cloud Ops/Procurement, identify cost-optimization and process improvements, and present executive-ready recommendations to improve gross margin.

Designs, deploys, and operates enterprise observability platforms for logs, metrics, traces, and alerting. Maintains Splunk, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry systems; automates infrastructure with Terraform; develops dashboards and alerts; supports capacity planning, upgrades, disaster recovery, incident response, and on-call operations. Partners with engineering teams to improve reliability, monitoring standards, and production performance across cloud infrastructure.

Serve as a strategic finance partner for the IT cloud management business unit. Own budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial reporting, expense management, accounting oversight, cloud cost optimization, liabilities, depreciation, and governance. Advise senior leaders through financial modeling and scenario analysis, improve processes and reporting, ensure policy compliance, and lead team development and cross-functional collaboration.

Designs complex, high-speed multilayer PCBs for service provider routing products. Coordinates with signal integrity, MCAD, manufacturing, contract manufacturer, and fabrication teams; resolves design and manufacturing issues; supports PCB stack-up and sequential lamination development; collaborates on technical solutions; and contributes to design best practices and continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale AI infrastructure across hybrid multi-cloud and GPU environments. Responsibilities include managing LLM inference, model serving, VectorDB/RAG, and MCP platforms; improving reliability through SLOs, observability, automation, autoscaling, and disaster recovery; optimizing GPU and inference performance; leading incident response; and partnering with research and platform teams on production readiness.

Three-year Cisco IT degree apprenticeship combining a fully funded bachelor’s degree, certifications, technical rotations, and paid employment. Apprentices develop software integrations, configure cloud and network infrastructure, build AI-powered workflows and automation, analyze system data, and solve business challenges within agile engineering teams. The program prepares graduates for Forward Deployment Engineer roles.

Leads pricing strategy and monetization for Cisco’s networking portfolio across hardware and software. Develops pricing, packaging, and commercialization strategies; conducts competitive analysis, market research, customer behavior and price elasticity analysis; and builds scalable pricing capabilities. Partners with product, engineering, finance, operations, sales, renewal strategy, and senior leadership to optimize monetization, support AI offerings, and drive cross-sell and upsell growth.

Pre-sales technical role supporting Global Enterprise accounts: design and present Cisco networking, data center, collaboration, security, automation, and cloud solutions; run demos and proofs-of-concept; create BOMs; consult with account teams and customers to align Cisco products and services to business outcomes.

Drive services and buying-program sales growth across Dutch public-sector accounts in the Benelux. Build customer and partner relationships, develop account strategies, position Cisco’s services portfolio, lead consultative and solution-selling activities, and collaborate with account, technical, delivery, legal, finance, and partner teams to close opportunities and improve recurring services revenue.

Develops managed services strategy and go-to-market plans for Cisco’s Americas Service Provider organization. Leads market analysis, customer segmentation, portfolio roadmaps, business cases, commercialization planning, governance, launch readiness, and sales acceleration. Partners cross-functionally with sales, engineering, finance, business units, and partner organizations to track initiatives, investments, risks, adoption, pipeline, revenue potential, and returns. Communicates strategic recommendations and program progress to senior leadership while creating reusable service models, planning frameworks, and execution playbooks.

Leads qualification of optical devices, assembly processes, suppliers, and technologies for next-generation optical products. Owns component and module quality, reliability, and manufacturability from design through end-of-life. Performs supplier assessments, design and process reviews, audits, failure analysis, containment, and corrective actions while collaborating with engineering, operations, supply chain, and external suppliers.

Designs and scales multi-region Kubernetes platforms across private and public clouds. Builds automation and CI/CD tooling for provisioning, upgrades, patching, and configuration management. Implements container security and vulnerability controls, contributes to architectural decisions, and develops AI agents for platform workflow automation. Requires software development experience with Go, Python, or Java and expertise in Kubernetes or distributed systems.

Build and improve cloud services and web applications for Cisco device management. Develop Control Hub features for enterprise IT administrators, collaborate with engineering, product, design, and customers, and contribute across the software lifecycle including testing, code reviews, deployment, operations, and on-call support.

Leads strategy, architecture, roadmap, and adoption of Cisco’s AI evaluation platform. Defines benchmarking, automated evaluation, human review, release gates, quality standards, regression detection, production telemetry, and user-feedback systems. Partners across research, engineering, and product teams to operationalize reliable, safe, and accurate AI and agent platforms at enterprise scale.

Develops and validates features for cloud-managed and on-premises wireless networking products. Responsibilities include implementing customer-facing functionality, automating features, improving wireless network performance and stability, and collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams. The role requires Java, ReactJS, Python, AI proficiency, networking knowledge, and software engineering experience, with preferred expertise in Cypress, wireless technologies, database design, and query optimization.

Design, automate, configure and qualify customer use cases on IOS‑XR platforms (ASR9K, NCS5500, 8000). Reproduce customer environments in lab, develop test frameworks and web GUIs leveraging analytics/ML, run automated and manual validation tests, troubleshoot routing platforms, and collaborate globally with development and account teams to deliver validated solutions for large service provider and enterprise deployments.

Own end-to-end sales cycles for major Birmingham-area enterprise accounts, prospecting opportunities, managing C-suite relationships, developing account plans, coordinating solution engineers and specialists, forecasting pipeline, and positioning Cisco’s secure networking portfolio. The role requires technical networking knowledge, CRM proficiency, strategic selling, cross-functional collaboration, and management of deals ranging from $50,000 to $750,000.

Architects and operates petabyte-scale telemetry ingestion, processing, and storage systems. Builds resilient distributed systems and data pipelines using streaming or batch frameworks in Kubernetes. Establishes observability with ELK and Grafana, collaborates across engineering teams, and applies AI-assisted tools to improve development, security, validation, and operational reliability.

Develops, tests, debugs, and maintains secure, scalable software focused on user experience and customer needs. Collaborates with design, product, and engineering teams; creates technical and user documentation; leads small-to-medium features; performs code reviews; troubleshoots production issues; supports on-call operations; contributes to postmortems and root-cause analyses; tracks product metrics; improves engineering processes; and mentors peers and interns.

Lead product strategy and execution for securing non-human identities across enterprise networks. Own discovery, classification, segmentation, and governance capabilities for IoT, OT, servers, containers, and virtual machines. Define roadmaps, requirements, and releases while aligning engineering, UX, security research, executives, and customers. Apply identity context to network access policies to strengthen Zero Trust security and improve compliance.