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Solutions Engineer
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+ Area of InterestEngineer - Pre Sales and Product Management
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**Meet the Team**
**The India BFSI team is a truly vibrant organization that covers the diverse set of customers in Enterprise segment. The team closely works with large Banking & Financial customers including few of the TOP 100 APJC customers for Cisco, strategic partners and engineering teams to build solutions around emerging technologies like SDN, High performance data centre networks, Cloud Security and AI. The BFSI customers run highly critical infrastructure responsible for the country's digital economy and hence the team focuses on deep technical excellence blended with sales acumen. You'll collaborate as part of a disruptive Sales engineering team to turn customer challenges into opportunities for growth and success aligned to Cisco's strategic vision. We offer exhilarating, inspiring, global, high impact, and uniquely broad opportunities for your growth in the organisation.**
**Your Impact**
**This role involves end-to-end architecture, design, and recommendation of solutions for Large BFSI customer Accounts using Cisco technologies. It requires developing tailored, innovative solutions to optimize customer's infrastructure and align with their strategic objectives. The Indian BFSI industry is highly regulated and hence the role demands a fair understanding of the common business challenges as well as the guidelines and regulations framed by the regulators.**
**The ideal candidate should have 12 to 15 years of experience in the industry, with a good background in designing and architecting network infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers with Experience with one or more areas like Secure Networking, Software Defined Network, Cloud Security etc.**
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ **10+ years of technology presales experience around one or more areas preferably in Cisco routing & Switching, Software defined network, data centre network, cloud security or Network Performance and observability**
+ **Good understanding of technologies like SDN, SDWAN, SASE etc**
+ **Ability to provide detailed and consumable documentation and standard methodologies for deployment around one or more solutions like large scale branch network infrastructure, private cloud infrastructure, Network & cloud security**
+ **Should be able to articulate and showcase real world examples of how technology can help solve problems and businesses thrive.**
+ **Strong acumen to discover business problems and turn them into POCs, demos with clearly articulated success criteria.**
+ **Excellent presentation skills - ability to value-sell and deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences**
+ **Good interpersonal relationship and ability to work with cross functional teams.**
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ **Bachelor of engineering degree (ECE/CS) or equivalent**
+ **Technical certifications in any of the areas like Networking/Security/Cloud**
+ **Prior experience in working with large enterprise customers**
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Position at Confluent India Private Limited

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.

What You Will Do:

Help advance new & innovative data streaming use-cases from conception to go-live

Execute on and lead technical proof of concepts

Conduct discovery & whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases

Provide thought Leadership by delivering technical talks and workshops

Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent deployment

Analyze customer consumption trends and identify optimization opportunities

Work closely with product and engineering teams, and serve as a key product advocate across the customer, partner and Industry ecosystem

Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them

What You Will Bring:

5+ years of Sales/Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineering or similar customer facing experience in the software sales or implementation space

Experience with event-driven architecture, data integration & processing techniques, database & data warehouse technologies, or related fields

First-Hand exposure to cloud architecture, migrations, deployment & application development

Experience with DevOps/Automation, GitOps or Kubernetes

Ability to read & write Java, Python or SQL

Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems

Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives

What Gives You an Edge:

Technical certifications - cloud developer/architect, data engineering & integration

Familiarity with solution or value Selling

A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples’ opinions

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Meet the Team

The India BFSI team is a truly vibrant organization that covers the diverse set of customers in Enterprise segment. The team closely works with large Banking & Financial customers including few of the TOP 100 APJC customers for Cisco, strategic partners and engineering teams to build solutions around emerging technologies like SDN, High performance data centre networks, Cloud Security and AI. The BFSI customers run highly critical infrastructure responsible for the country’s digital economy and hence the team focuses on deep technical excellence blended with sales acumen. You'll collaborate as part of a disruptive Sales engineering team to turn customer challenges into opportunities for growth and success aligned to Cisco's strategic vision. We offer exhilarating, inspiring, global, high impact, and uniquely broad opportunities for your growth in the organisation.

Your Impact

This role involves end-to-end architecture, design, and recommendation of solutions for Large BFSI customer Accounts using Cisco technologies. It requires developing tailored, innovative solutions to optimize customer’s infrastructure and align with their strategic objectives. The Indian BFSI industry is highly regulated and hence the role demands a fair understanding of the common business challenges as well as the guidelines and regulations framed by the regulators.

The ideal candidate should have 12 to 15 years of experience in the industry, with a good background in designing and architecting network infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers with Experience with one or more areas like Secure Networking, Software Defined Network, Cloud Security etc.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of technology presales experience around one or more areas preferably in Cisco routing & Switching, Software defined network, data centre network, cloud security or Network Performance and observability

Good understanding of technologies like SDN, SDWAN, SASE etc

Ability to provide detailed and consumable documentation and standard methodologies for deployment around one or more solutions like large scale branch network infrastructure, private cloud infrastructure, Network & cloud security

Should be able to articulate and showcase real world examples of how technology can help solve problems and businesses thrive.

Strong acumen to discover business problems and turn them into POCs, demos with clearly articulated success criteria.

Excellent presentation skills – ability to value-sell and deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences

Good interpersonal relationship and ability to work with cross functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of engineering degree (ECE/CS) or equivalent

Technical certifications in any of the areas like Networking/Security/Cloud

Prior experience in working with large enterprise customers

As a managed service, this role delivers value to our customers by project managing and taking a senior role in providing specialized consulting activities, implementing replicable and scalable packaged solutions to customer business workflow challenges, and increasing customer satisfaction.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Solution Engineer in the Professional Serivces team, you will: 

Project implementation: Take a leadership role in implementing projects about the following project activities: Gathering and analyzing customer requirements, designing architectures, and implementing the project in customer environments.

Deliver and Support: Deploy the product in customer environments by leveraging proven implementation methodologies using the Kubernetes Platform; you are involved in the entire process of implementation, operational support, monitoring, automation, building, and delivering high-quality solutions for the customer.

Expertise: Subject matter expert in one or more customer business workflows and related solutions packages and products, providing domain expertise to our customers relative to solution propositions.

Customer: Develop customer relations at the appropriate level to become a trusted business advisor.

Support: Implement appropriate monitoring and alerting for the application and be able to provide support. This role is expected to be on-call periodically.

Be a Team Player:  In a collaborative team-oriented environment, you share information, value diverse ideas, and partner with customers, cross-functional and remote teams.

Be an Agile Person: with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you deliver solutions against strict timelines.

Be Innovative: you are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.

Be an Effective Communicator: You effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments through active engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members.

Understand the product inside-out and how this product can solve customer challenges. Be proficient in the product capabilities and position as a subject matter expert.

Understand the product suite and ecosystem, such as related products in the suite and other integrated applications .

Work on multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and GCP using the native Kubernetes platform (like EKS, AKS, GKE, and OKE in respective cloud environments).

Understand customers' requirements and challenges , customize and configure the product to meet the customers' needs.

Analyze the performance requirements and perform the sizing exercise to recommend appropriate compute and infra specifications to the customer. As necessary, assist the customer with the Kubernetes cluster setup .

Deploy the application and its components in the Kubernetes platform in the execution platform of the customer's infrastructure (like AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP, on-prem, or custom private cloud infra).

Perform the functional quality assurance and the performance assessment and optimize the solution to meet the performance characteristics of the customer requirements.

Implement Application Performance Monitoring using the tools of customers' choice (like Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Prometheus, etc.) and set up appropriate monitoring to ensure the products' responsiveness, security, resilience, and efficiency.

Provide ongoing support should the customer require assistance, the monitors go off, or the customer report any concerns/challenges. This role is expected to be on-call periodically to provide operational support post-implementation.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Solution Engineer if your background includes:

Kubernetes certified professional or an expert administrator of Kubernetes and Helm

A self-learner, self-driven, and able to operate with minimal supervision.

Able to demonstrate expertise in at least one public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/OCI).

Be proficient in APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools like Datadog APM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.

Able to successfully communicate with business partners, management, and technical team members.

Experienced SRE with development or DevOps background, worked on enterprise-scale applications.

Proficient user of Monitoring and alerting tools. Proactive in raising problems and identifying solutions.

AWS SysOps Associate or DevOps professional certified (or equivalent in other cloud service providers).

Strong sense of customer service. Able to work in a highly collaborative team setting. Approaching work with a DevOps and continuous improvement mindset

Bachelor's degree

Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise-level DevOps role. (Minimum 3 years with Cloud AWS/Azure and 2 years with Kubernetes Administration)

Expertise in Kubernetes administration/development, hands-on experience in Helm

Strong knowledge of infrastructure components (e.g., routers, load balancers, cloud products, container systems, compute, storage, and networks)

Expertise is required in observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk, etc.

A deep understanding of Application performance monitoring (APM) and user monitoring is essential.

Sound knowledge of ITSM process, SI/SLO/SLA management, incident resolution, and automation techniques 

Strong IP networking fundamentals and experience with usage of standard application protocols and messages (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP, RESTful APIs, XML/JSON, JDBC, JMS/MQ) 

Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Ansible, Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, etc., is preferable.

Apply standards of cloud compliance to application design to achieve reliability.

Able to analyze application and server logs and error interpretation.

Ability to code in one of the programming languages (Java, Python, Shell, etc.)

Experience in site reliability engineering in Java, Kubernetes, and Database platforms (like Postgres)

The candidate should possess excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.

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Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

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Meet the Team

The India BFSI team is a truly vibrant organization that covers the diverse set of customers in Enterprise segment. The team closely works with large Banking & Financial customers including few of the TOP 100 APJC customers for Cisco, strategic partners and engineering teams to build solutions around emerging technologies like SDN, High performance data centre networks, Cloud Security and AI. The BFSI customers run highly critical infrastructure responsible for the country’s digital economy and hence the team focuses on deep technical excellence blended with sales acumen. You'll collaborate as part of a disruptive Sales engineering team to turn customer challenges into opportunities for growth and success aligned to Cisco's strategic vision. We offer exhilarating, inspiring, global, high impact, and uniquely broad opportunities for your growth in the organisation.

Your Impact

This role involves end-to-end architecture, design, and recommendation of solutions for Large BFSI customer Accounts using Cisco technologies. It requires developing tailored, innovative solutions to optimize customer’s infrastructure and align with their strategic objectives. The Indian BFSI industry is highly regulated and hence the role demands a fair understanding of the common business challenges as well as the guidelines and regulations framed by the regulators.

The ideal candidate should have 12 to 15 years of experience in the industry, with a good background in designing and architecting network infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers with Experience with one or more areas like Secure Networking, Software Defined Network, Cloud Security etc.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of technology presales experience around one or more areas preferably in Cisco routing & Switching, Software defined network, data centre network, cloud security or Network Performance and observability

Good understanding of technologies like SDN, SDWAN, SASE etc

Ability to provide detailed and consumable documentation and standard methodologies for deployment around one or more solutions like large scale branch network infrastructure, private cloud infrastructure, Network & cloud security

Should be able to articulate and showcase real world examples of how technology can help solve problems and businesses thrive.

Strong acumen to discover business problems and turn them into POCs, demos with clearly articulated success criteria.

Excellent presentation skills – ability to value-sell and deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences

Good interpersonal relationship and ability to work with cross functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of engineering degree (ECE/CS) or equivalent

Technical certifications in any of the areas like Networking/Security/Cloud

Prior experience in working with large enterprise customers