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Technical Marketing Engineer – Competitive

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

This role will be part of the Campus Connectivity, Competitive Technical Marketing team. This team provides both outbound sales enablement, including technical collateral and services as well as inbound competitive analysis for engineering and product management.

Your Impact

The main focus of this role is to conduct performance, functional and solution testing as well as manage existing lab infrastructure.

This role will focus on Enterprise Technologies, including Campus Switching, WAN Routing, Campus Fabric/Segmentation, SD-WAN, and Network Management tools (NetOps, AIOps, SecOps).

• Network Switch and Firewall Testing – Conduct hands-on analysis of Tier 1 Campus Switching and Routing vendors, comparing their products to Cisco’s solutions, including the Catalyst 9000 Series Switching, Catalyst 8000 Series Routing, Catalyst Center, SD-WAN, and Meraki Cloud.
• Solution Testing – Perform competitive benchmark testing and comparative analysis, from feature-level assessments to architecture and solution-level evaluations.
• Lab Infrastructure –Manage and maintain on premises lab as we’ll as a small Colo infrastructure, ensuring it includes both current technologies and the latest emerging hardware, software, and platforms (On-Premises and Cloud SaaS)
• Vendor Analysis – Research and assess vendor offerings and capabilities, providing competitive insights. Evaluate products and solutions from a customer use-case perspective.
• Content Creation – Contribute to the competitive knowledge base by creating deliverables such as presentations, playbooks, whitepapers, and demos

Minimum Qualifications - these should be clearly defined, objective, non-comparative, relevant, and quantifiable to appropriately evaluate applicants – not including soft skills):

• Familiarity with industry network testing tools like Spirent Test Center, IXIA BreakingPoint, or equivalent is preferred.
• Understanding of routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF , as well as WAN related technologies including IPsec VPN, MPLS
• Experience with multi-vendor Campus Network solutions is an advantage.
• Candidates must be highly organized, fluent in English, and possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

3 plus years’ experience developing and executing performance and solutions test plans and test cases on networking products including switches, routers and next generation firewalls.

3 plus years’ experience directly configuring network switches, routers and or next generation firewall products in a production environment.

Demonstrated knowledge and skill sets related to operating or managing an enterprise network. Able to evaluate switching, routing and security products from a customer use-case perspective.

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