Meet the Team
Join Cisco’s Solutions Engineering team in Saudi Arabia, focused on Public Sector—where innovation and impact meet national transformation. As part of the KSA Sales organization, you’ll collaborate with some of the brightest minds in technology, partnering with Account Managers and cross-functional experts to design solutions that drive the Kingdom’s digital vision and drive the mega projects in the country. Our team culture thrives on trust, collaboration, and technical excellence, empowering every member to deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers and communities.
Your Impact
As a Solutions Architect at Cisco KSA-Public Sector, you will play a key role in shaping the technology strategies of our Public Sector clients. Working in a pre-sales capacity, you will partner closely with Account Managers to develop tailored, business-driven solutions and articulate the financial and strategic value of Cisco’s portfolio. You’ll deliver technical presentations, lead proof-of-concepts, and design architectures that demonstrate Cisco’s innovation across networking, security, cloud, and automation. Your ability to translate business needs into technology outcomes will position Cisco as a trusted advisor to Saudi Arabia’s government and enterprise stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, solution design, or systems engineering.
- Deep expertise in Cisco technologies or equivalent competitor solutions.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, data center, and cloud domains.
- Proven experience engaging with enterprise or public-sector clients.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- CCIE certification preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Advanced knowledge in SD-WAN, ACI, DNA, SASE, AI, Cloud, Automation, and Digital Transformation.
- Experience with AI/ML, Cloud-Native applications, Kubernetes, and Docker preferred.
- Familiarity with MLOps, AIOps, and and programming/scripting capabilities.
- 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.
- Fluent in English; Arabic proficiency is a plus.
Why Cisco?
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.
Why Cisco?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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, solution design, or systems engineering
- Deep expertise in Cisco technologies or equivalent competitor solutions
- Strong understanding of networking, security, data center, and cloud domains
- Proven experience engaging with enterprise or public-sector clients
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- CCIE certification
- Advanced knowledge of SD-WAN, ACI, DNA, SASE, AI, cloud, automation, and digital transformation
- Experience with AI/ML, cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Familiarity with MLOps, AIOps, and programming or scripting capabilities
- Fluency in English
- Arabic proficiency
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
