Responsibilities

• Lead defined validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions under Sr. TME guidance.
• Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
• Execute validation plans, capture evidence, identify issues, and document repeatable outcomes.
• Partner with Sr. TMEs, BU product managers, BU TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to keep validation work technically credible and field-relevant.
• Support earlier-career TMEs and external partner resources by sharing lab practices, troubleshooting approaches, and validation lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 8+ years of hands-on technical experience, testing, troubleshooting, or supporting complex networking, security, cloud, collaboration, or data center environments.
• Experience in at least one technical domain to include networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies, with depth in at least one major technical domain.
• Experience contributing to technical work across product, engineering, field, sales, customer-facing, or cross-functional teams.
• Experience executing validation plans, capture evidence, document findings, and communicate technical results clearly.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across one or more Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains.
• Ability to understand how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures and cross-portfolio outcomes.
• Ability to stay effective and adaptable in ambiguous technical environments with shifting priorities and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong general networking foundation, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
• Exposure to AI infrastructure, AI-ready data center architectures, GPU cluster networking, high-performance fabrics, workload connectivity, or secure AI architecture concepts.
• Experience validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly through lab notes, validation results, documentation inputs, technical reviews, and proof assets.