Director, Technical Marketing – Data Center Networking Business

Role Overview

Join Cisco’s Nexus & AI Networking team as a Director of Technical Marketing, working on groundbreaking data center networking fabric architectures and Agentic Ops frameworks. As a senior individual contributor and trusted executive advisor, collaborate across engineering, product management, sales, and the broader industry ecosystem to build the future of networking.

What You Will Do

Define, validate, and publish authoritative reference architectures for critically meaningful use cases, function as an executive technical advisor, author landmark technical publications, and represent Cisco at industry events. Lead deep-dive technical briefings for strategic global accounts and build long-term relationships with ecosystem partners.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires 15+ years of deep technical experience in data center networking, systems engineering, product engineering, or technical marketing, with expertise in NX-OS, Nexus platform architectures, VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Segment Routing, and data center fabric build at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline (PhD is a plus) or equivalent combination of skills and experience
• 15+ years of deep technical experience in data center networking, systems engineering, product engineering, or technical marketing
• Networking Expertise: 10+ years of expert-level proficiency in NX-OS, Nexus platform architectures, VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Segment Routing, and data center fabric build at scale
• AI/HPC Proficiency: 10+ years of hands-on expertise in RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2), GPUDirect RDMA, GPU cluster interconnect design, and lossless Ethernet fabric design
• Automation: 10+ years proficiency in Python, Ansible, Terraform, YANG/NETCONF, gNMI, and OpenConfig

Benefits

• 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
• paid time away (10 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness)
• paid vacation time (16 days per full calendar year for non-exempt employees, flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees)
• sick time off (80 hours 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 next)
• optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
• performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)