Solutions Engineer - Riyadh KSA
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Meet the Team Join Cisco’s Solutions Engineering team in Saudi Arabia—where innovation and impact meet national transformation.
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Meet the Team
Join Cisco’s Solutions Engineering team in Saudi Arabia—where innovation and impact meet national transformation.
As part of the KSA Sales organization, you’ll collaborate with some of the brightest minds in technology, partnering with Account Managers and cross-functional experts to design solutions that drive the Kingdom’s digital vision.
Our team culture thrives on trust, collaboration, and technical excellence, empowering every member to deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers and communities.
Your Impact
As a Solutions Architect at Cisco KSA, you will play a key role in shaping the technology strategies of our Public Sector clients.
Working in a pre-sales capacity, you will partner closely with Account Managers to develop tailored, business-driven solutions and articulate the financial and strategic value of Cisco’s portfolio.
You’ll deliver technical presentations, lead proof-of-concepts, and design architectures that demonstrate Cisco’s innovation across networking, security, cloud, and automation.
Your ability to translate business needs into technology outcomes will position Cisco as a trusted advisor to Saudi Arabia’s government and enterprise stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, solution design, or systems engineering.
- Deep expertise in Cisco technologies or equivalent competitor solutions.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, data center, and cloud domains.
- Proven experience engaging with enterprise or public-sector clients.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- CCIE certification preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Advanced knowledge in SD-WAN, ACI, DNA, SASE, AI, Cloud, Automation, and Digital Transformation.
- Experience with AI/ML, Cloud-Native applications, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Familiarity with MLOps, AIOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong technical consulting and solution-building skills, with the ability to define trade-offs and integrate Cisco technologies into broader architectures.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of articulating Cisco’s value to both technical and executive audiences.
- Programming skills are an advantage.
- Fluent in English; Arabic proficiency is a plus.
- Nature of the Work: Hybrid Full Time
- Hours of work: 48 hours per week
- Benefits: Healthcare and Insurance, Employee Stock Purchase program, Flexible Spending Benefit, Flex and Schooling Allowances and many more.
- Application start and end date: Starting 2nd of Feb, 2026 for approx. 4-6 weeks
- 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.
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