Senior Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain reference architectures and validated deployment patterns for AI-driven cloud infrastructure.
• Operate full-stack lab environments to validate Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 workflows, including automation, scaling, and security controls.
• Collaborate with engineering and product management to identify product gaps, resolve adoption blockers, and define technical readiness criteria.
• Produce technical assets such as white papers, deployment guides, demonstration videos, and workshops to enable internal field teams and external partners.
• Represent the product and technical strategy in customer workshops, executive briefings, and strategic industry forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering + 12 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree + 8 years of professional experience.
• Experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or platform/site reliability engineering.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in production or production-like environments, including container orchestration, networking, and storage integrations.
• Experience developing infrastructure automation using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go) or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience creating and delivering technical presentations or documentation, such as white papers, deployment guides, or architectural design reviews, for technical audiences.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, specifically managing GPU clusters, model training pipelines, or AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.

Preferred

• Technical knowledge of high-performance networking technologies including RoCE, lossless Ethernet, or low-latency data center fabrics.
• Experience with public or private cloud platform services, including multi-tenancy, identity and access management, and observability frameworks.
• Operational experience with performance benchmarking.
• Experience working in agile, rapid-growth environments where product requirements and technical priorities evolve continuously.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• paid holidays, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next