Solutions Development Architect

Meet the Team

Security at Cisco is no longer a product you bolt on — it is table stakes, and it is a lifecycle, and our Customer Experience (CX) Professional Services team in Asia Pacific & Japan is where that belief meets our largest Service Provider customers. We help Tier-1 carriers, national operators, mobile network operators, and telco-cloud/webscale providers across Japan, Australia/New Zealand, ASEAN, and India transform their security architecture — infusing protection into the network fabric, embedding zero trust by design, and standing up a modern, AI-driven Security Operations Center. We are a small, senior, high-trust group of architects of record who operate at the intersection of deep networking and security, and who are trusted by CISOs and CTOs to set the security direction for some of the region's most complex networks. What is exciting is the scope: you own the security agenda for an entire vertical across four diverse markets, and you get to shape how an agentic, AI-powered SOC and security-by-design come to life at carrier scale.

Your Impact

As a senior Security Solutions Development Architect, you will drive the CX Security pre-sales architecture and delivery strategy for highly complex, large-scale groundbreaking engagements across APJ Service Provider accounts, acting as the security architect of record. You will influence security, network, and operations decisions at executive and C-levels (CISO, CTO, SVP and above) and translate security architecture into measurable outcomes — risk reduction, faster mean-time-to-detect/respond, lower threat dwell-time, stronger compliance posture, and analyst productivity — so customers can see the business value, not just the technology. You will architect zero trust transformations and security-by-design controls (segmentation, secure connectivity, policy-based isolation) that embed protection into routing, transport, data center, edge, and peering layers, then develop the observability framework and high-fidelity detections that power an agentic, AI-driven SOC. You will uncover new and expansion security opportunities, lead CX security RFI/RFP responses, and scope and price cross-architecture proposals so they can be cleanly delivered by CX's technical delivery teams — staying lightly engaged post-sale to ensure realization and bring together reference wins. Success looks like a growing, balanced CX Security business across APJ SP, with customers advancing along zero trust, security-by-design, and SOC-modernization journeys that Cisco helped them design and deliver.

Security & Service Provider Technical Domains

You are expected to bring architect-level expertise across at least two domains — networking and security architecture — with cross-domain fluency over the following: