Solutions Architect

Cisco

Technical lead for AI agents enhancing technical sellers' productivity at Splunk. Delivering agentic systems and establishing best practices across platforms.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $135,800 - $198,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsMicroservicesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the technical lead for AI agents for technical sellers
Deliver an initial 3 to 5 agents to streamline technical sellers’ daily workflows
Advise on the end-to-end design for agentic systems across platforms
Define, document, and evangelize best practices for agent platforms
Guide which agents are built on which platform
Set technical direction for contractor building agents
Contribute to reference designs and standards
Establish comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting for agents in production
Track resource consumption across agentic workloads
Define the boundaries that keep agents safe and compliant

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of software, ML, or platform engineering experience
Proven ability to act as a technical authority and force multiplier
Hands-on experience designing and building production agentic systems
Experience selecting among and building across multiple agent platforms
Strong tool and API integration skills
Experience building evaluation harnesses and validating agentic systems in simulation
Familiarity with token and cost management across multiple LLM providers
Experience directing and reviewing the work of contractors or peer engineers
Hands-on experience operating agents in production
Proficiency in cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS
Experience in programming/scripting languages such as Python and Bash
Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested for family emergencies
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningagentic systemsAPI integrationcloud-native architectureAWSPythonBashdistributed systemsmicroservices architecturesimulation validation

Soft Skills

technical authorityleadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdocumentationevangelismguidanceresource managementcompliance awareness