Technical Marketing Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco

San Jose, CA

Full Time

Senior

131k-200k

22 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Join Cisco's Isovalent Technical Marketing team — a passionate, high-impact group focused on educating the world about cloud-native networking and security. We build technical content that spans blogs, hands-on labs, videos, case studies, reusable demos, and more. As part of a fast-growing team at the forefront of innovation, you'll work with industry-defining technologies like Cilium and Tetragon to influence users, prospects, and customers. With our recent acquisition by Cisco, this is a unique opportunity to help scale a powerful open-source movement inside a global leader.

Key Responsibilities

Drive our technical content strategy — bringing cloud-native networking and security topics to life for DevOps, NetOps, SecOps, and Kubernetes practitioners.
Create blog posts, demos, technical guides, white papers, and videos to educate and enable customers, partners, and the community.
Translate product capabilities into compelling storytelling tailored to engineers and decision-makers alike.
Research use cases in collaboration with product, engineering, and field teams and create targeted content to support them.
Deliver high-impact webinars, workshops, and conference sessions.
Help sales teams and partners ramp up faster with practical and reusable content assets.
Work comfortably with remote work and occasional travel (up to 20%).

Requirements

5+ years in technical marketing, technical writing, or a customer-facing role (e.g., solutions architect, sales engineer) at enterprise-focused technology companies.
Proven experience creating impactful technical content such as blogs, demos, presentations, or documentation.
Strong experience in Linux and Kubernetes fundamentals.
Experience in networking technologies such as, Networking, L3/L4, load balancing, routing, and security.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly and concisely.
Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
Familiarity with open-source projects and contribution workflows.
Background in network engineering or security operations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across functions.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with open-source contribution workflows.
Background in network engineering or security operations.

Qualifications

Not explicitly specified, but implied: relevant educational background or certifications in networking, security, or related fields.

Benefits & Perks

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday and a day off for their birthday.
Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period.
Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy.
All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off, with 80 hours provided on hire date and annually thereafter, up to a maximum of 160 hours.
Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically for local requirements.
Additional paid time off for volunteering and community service.
Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles, with detailed incentive structure.

Working at 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. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Our solutions are everywhere, and our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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