Cisco Systems | Sales Engineering – Cybersecurity (ASEAN)

About the Team

Our Cybersecurity Sales Engineering team partners with sales, TAC, customer success, and our partner ecosystem to design and deliver Cisco's security architecture across the ASEAN territory — spanning Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Secure Access & Identity, AI Security, XDR, SASE, and Hypershield. We work directly with customers to uncover their toughest security challenges and translate them into solutions they can see, touch, and trust before they buy.

We're a small, close-knit team, and every person on it multiplies what the rest of us can do. This role exists to give the team more hands on the build side of the house — turning validated use cases and requirements into working, customized demos and proofs of concept, so our senior SEs can spend more time where their experience matters most: in front of customers, designing complex solutions.

Position Summary

We're looking for an Associate Sales Engineer to join our security SE team as a technical builder. You'll work alongside senior SEs and account teams to take discovered use cases and requirements and turn them into tailored demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, and automated builds that bring a proposed solution to life for the customer.

This is not a scripted-demo role. You'll be given a set of requirements — sometimes well-defined, sometimes rough — and you'll need to figure out how to build, configure, script, or automate your way to a working environment that proves the value of the design. You'll increasingly use AI-assisted tools to accelerate that build process: generating code, configuring agents, automating repetitive setup work, and iterating on demo environments faster than a manual build would allow.

Over time, as you build fluency with our security portfolio, you'll take on more of the solution-design conversation itself — this role is a deliberate on-ramp into full-scope Sales Engineering, not a permanent behind-the-scenes function.

What You'll Do

• Translate discovered customer use cases and requirements (handed off from senior SEs or account teams) into working, customized demo environments and proofs of concept

• Build, configure, and script across Cisco's security portfolio — Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Secure Access & Identity, AI Security, XDR, SASE, and Hypershield — to represent real customer scenarios

• Use AI-assisted development tools and agents to automate demo builds, environment setup, and repetitive configuration tasks, shortening the time from requirement to working proof of concept

• Maintain, refresh, and troubleshoot demo/POC environments so they stay reliable and reusable across the team

• Partner closely with senior Sales Engineers to understand the "why" behind a solution design, not just the "what" — and flag technical gaps or better-fit approaches as you find them

• Document builds and configurations so environments can be handed off, reused, or extended by others on the team

• Collaborate cross-functionally with TAC, customer success, and partners when a build surfaces a product gap, bug, or integration question

• Take on a growing share of customer-facing work over time as your product and solution-design depth increases

Who You Are
Required:

• A technical background — computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience with 2-3 years of relevant work experience.

• Comfortable with programmability: scripting (Python or similar), APIs, automation tools, infrastructure-as-code, or network/security device programmability

• Practical experience using AI tools to design, build, or automate — coding assistants, agent frameworks, or AI-driven workflow automation — and a genuine interest in getting faster and better with them

• Strong troubleshooting instincts and comfort working in ambiguous, not-fully-specified environments

• Good communication skills — you'll need to translate technical decisions to both senior engineers and, eventually, customers

• Curiosity about cybersecurity and a desire to grow into a customer-facing Sales Engineering role

Nice to have:

• Exposure to networking or security fundamentals (firewalls, identity/access, SASE, XDR concepts)

• Any Cisco, cloud, or security certification (or active pursuit of one)

• Experience with virtualization/lab platforms (e.g., dCloud, VMs, containers) used for building demo environments

• Prior internship, lab, or project experience building POCs, demos, or automation tooling

Why This Role

• A structured path from technical builder into full Sales Engineering — you'll grow alongside senior SEs, not stay boxed into one lane

• Direct exposure to Cisco's security portfolio and to how real deals get won, from requirements to demo to close

• Latitude to bring AI-driven tooling into how the team builds — this role is as much about improving how we build demos as building them

• A small team where your work is immediately visible and valued, across a fast-growing ASEAN cybersecurity territory

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.