What You'll Do

As a Partner Systems Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving the success of Cisco's partner ecosystem and delivering innovative, automated infrastructure solutions to our customers. Your role will focus on:

Automation & Innovation: Helping Cisco partners and customers adopt automation practices for configuration, deployment, and lifecycle management of Cisco's infrastructure and solutions.
Partner Co-Innovation: Collaborating with Partner Business Group (PBG) teams to jointly develop differentiated Cisco solutions with partners—leveraging forward-looking ideas to drive market leadership and competitive advantage.
Customer-Centric Solutions: Shaping strategy for selected accounts by understanding business challenges and aligning Cisco solutions to help partners and customers succeed.
Advisory Engagement: Acting as a trusted advisor—guiding customers and partners on technology adoption, architecture best practices, and operational efficiencies.
Technical Evangelism: Delivering impactful presentations, demonstrations, and value propositions to a variety of stakeholders (technical and business).
Best Practice Sharing: Promoting internal and external knowledge-sharing on sales and deployment approaches for complex solutions.
Collaborative Escalation: Working closely with Technical Support to ensure rapid resolution of critical customer issues.

Key Collaboration Areas

Partner Business Group (PBG)
Indonesia & Regional Engineering Teams
Product Sales Specialists
Cisco Partner Engineers and Sales Teams

This role is ideal for someone passionate about working with cutting-edge technology in a fast-moving environment. You'll meet with both established partners and emerging startups to shape the future of Cisco's ecosystem.

Who You'll Work With

The ASEAN Systems Engineering team includes over 90 skilled, collaborative, and forward-thinking engineers. We specialize in pre-sales, deep technical engagement, partner enablement, and solution architecture. We prioritize professional growth, continuous learning, and hold Cisco's internal certifications in high regard.

You'll be part of a team that solves real customer problems by combining business insight with technical expertise. We value diversity in skills and backgrounds and actively seek individuals who can bring fresh perspectives and capabilities to the team.

Who You Are

You are a customer-obsessed, solution-oriented technical sales engineer who thrives in collaborative environments. You can navigate between business and technical conversations, influencing internal and external stakeholders effectively.

You Bring

5-7 years of experience in a pre-sales or systems engineering role, ideally within the networking or cloud infrastructure space.
Deep expertise in one or more Cisco architectures (Networking, Security, Collaboration, Data Center, Cloud).
Experience engaging and enabling Partners in both technical and strategic conversations.
Familiarity with competitive solutions and how Cisco positions against them.
A proactive, high-ownership mindset—you take initiative, solve problems, and go the extra mile.
Strong communication skills—verbal and written—tailored for technical and executive-level audiences.
Ability to translate customer business needs into technical solutions with clear justifications.
Continuous learning attitude, with active participation in virtual teams, architecture groups, and community forums.

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.

Partner Solutions Engineer

Partner Solutions Engineer