Forward Deployed Engineer (SSE)
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with that info. - This position is remote from anywhere in the USA. 50% travel internationally is required. - Meet the Team Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer in a customer-facing role that focuses on technical leadership, two-way advocacy, and expertise across our Security Service Edge (SSE) portfolio. This role combines deep SWG/SSE, networking and security expertise with the opportunity to influence product direction, solve critically important customer challenges, and serve as the technical link between product, engineering and our most strategic enterprise customers. Cisco SSE offers a comprehensive end-to-end zero trust access security portfolio including VPN, zero trust access, web inspection in the cloud, firewall as a service, CASB, DLP and more. Cisco SSE deployment flexibility allows customers to select solutions tailored to their needs and transition seamlessly as requirements evolve. You work globally across regions and time zones in support of our largest and most strategic SSE customers, coordinating with globally distributed engineering teams! Expect participation in a follow-the-sun escalation model and significant travel to customer sites and engineering hubs. - Your Impact: Serve as the technical liaison between Cisco SSE product management and engineering and our largest, most strategic enterprise SSE customers! Represent the product organization to customers by clearly recommending deployment best practices, issue findings, root causes, workarounds, product constraints, and delivery timelines. Represent the customer within the product organization by bringing production context, business impact, operational constraints, and technical requirements into build and prioritization discussions. Own sophisticated escalations, balancing realistic customer expectations with accurate, reproducible technical evidence while advocating for outcomes that protect customer environments. Translate requirements, RCAs, and technical decisions between customer and engineering contexts without losing fidelity on either side. - Key Responsibilities: list bullet points. - Minimum Qualifications: list bullet points. - Preferred Qualifications: list bullet points. - Why Cisco?: paragraph about company. - Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $160,800.00 to $214,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by CiscoNon-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 employeesExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)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 nextAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family membersOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies. Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan. For Quota-based Incentive Pay, Cisco Typically Pays As Follows .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; andOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area $160,800.00 - $253,200.00 Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $142,900.00 - $246,200.00 For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements. We need to include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections with real specific content. We have: - About the role: we have description of role, team, impact. That's content. - Responsibilities: we have Key Responsibilities bullet list. - Requirements: we have Minimum Qualifications bullet list. - Qualifications: we have Preferred Qualifications bullet list. - Skills: we could extract from qualifications maybe but we can also include a Skills section summarizing technical skills (e.g., Bash/Python, networking, security, etc.) but we must not invent. The posting includes skills in qualifications: experience with DNS, routing, IPsec tunnels, TLS, SAML, SWG/Web Proxy, cloud networking, zero trust access, VPN, web inspection in the cloud, CASB, DLP, firewall policy, identity and SSO integrations (SAML/OIDC, SCIM), Bash/Python scripting. We could put those under Skills. - Benefits: we have benefits description (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), parental leave, disability, life insurance, RSU, paid time off details). That's substantive. - Pay: we have salary ranges and details. That's substantive. - Schedule: we have remote, 50% travel internationally required, follow-the-sun escalation model, significant travel to customer sites and engineering hubs, work globally across regions and time zones. Also mention about vacation etc but that's benefits. Schedule could include remote work, travel expectations, follow-the-sun model. That's substantive. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title. We must not include application instructions (none present). Must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We need to use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide which content goes where.
Let's craft:
About the role
... (description)
Maybe include remote and travel info in About the role or Schedule. Since Schedule section is for schedule specifics, we can put remote and travel there.
But we also have "Meet the Team Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer..." That's about the role.
We'll include that paragraph.
Then Responsibilities: Responsibilities
- ... each bullet
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications.
Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications.
Skills: maybe combine technical skills from qualifications into a list.
Benefits: list of benefits.
Pay: salary range details.
Schedule: remote, 50% travel internationally, follow-the-sun escalation model, work across time zones.
We must ensure we don't duplicate content.
Let's extract bullet points.
From Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical relationship on a named set of large and/or strategic SSE accounts, including critical issues end to end.
- Drive proactive account health by improving deployment and rollout planning, configuration and policy consistency.
- Build clean escalations for engineering - timeline, impact, repro, logs, pcaps, redacted configs - and translate outcomes back to the customer.
- Feed recurring customer patterns back into product and engineering roadmaps as concrete requirements.
- Build and support the CX-driven runbooks and documentation from lessons learned and for future SSE deployments.
- Script (Bash/Python) for diagnostics, health checks, automations, and lab reproduction.
From Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field with 10+ years of professional experience in networking, security, or cloud infrastructure; or a Master's degree with 7+ years of experience.
- 7+ years in networking/security with direct customer ownership.
- Experience with DNS, routing, IPsec tunnels, TLS, SAML, SWG/Web Proxy, and cloud networking.
- Experience across zero trust access, VPN, web inspection in the cloud, CASB, DLP, and firewall policy.
- 5+ years of experience with identity and SSO integrations (SAML/OIDC, SCIM) in enterprise deployments.
From Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience handling on-premises and cloud security/networking products in production customer environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence customer expectations and recommend successful SaaS deployment and adoption strategies.
- Experience supporting large multinational enterprise accounts with global SSE or SASE rollouts.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and cultures in a distributed engineering organization.
- Coding experience with Bash, Python, or similar.
- Ability to advocate for both viewpoints—customer urgency and engineering feasibility—without distorting either.
- Ability to communicate engineering updates to executive and technical customer audiences, and customer context to engineering.
We could also include skills: Bash/Python, networking, security, DNS, routing, IPsec, TLS, SAML, SWG/Web Proxy, cloud networking, zero trust access, VPN, web inspection, CASB, DLP, firewall policy, identity/SSO (SAML/OIDC, SCIM).
We'll put those under Skills.
Benefits: from the long paragraph:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Grants of Cisco restricted stock units (vesting)
- Paid time away:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
for prose. We need to decide which content goes where. Let's craft:
About the role
... (description)
Maybe include remote and travel info in About the role or Schedule. Since Schedule section is for schedule specifics, we can put remote and travel there. But we also have "Meet the Team Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer..." That's about the role. We'll include that paragraph. Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- ... each bullet