Customer Escalations Engineering Technical Leader

About this role

The application window is expected to close on: 10/23/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

Meet the Team

The Global Meraki Escalations and Product Specialist Group operates within the CEAD (Customer Escalations Adoption and Deployment) Engineering organization. This team is dedicated to leading Customer Escalations and triaging Customer Facing Defects. They collaborate closely with Meraki Support, Development Engineering, and Product Management teams to ensure a top-tier Customer and Support Experience. The CEAD team is committed to delighting customers by delivering exceptional products—including Catalyst and Meraki platforms, switching, wireless, and routing—and outstanding support experiences through multi-functional collaboration across Cisco, fostering growth and innovation. The Customer Escalations Engineering Technical Leader role will focus on Meraki Platform (Dashboard and Licensing) as the product area of work.

Your Impact Lead resolution for critical and strategic issues, including CAP, Critical Incident Center (CIC) engagements, Sev0 incidents, and other high-visibility customer situations. This involves offering technical, tactical, and collaborator guidance to enhance quality, customer outcomes, and resolution paths. Lead Pro-active Assurance initiatives that transition CEAD from reactive issue response to earlier risk detection, customer stabilization, and closed-loop product improvement by using Meraki Dashboard intelligence, critical metric signals, customer configuration context, release-readiness insights, and field trends. Staying closely aware of active customer and partner concerns, platform trends, top issues, customer-impacting product behaviors, and recurring support themes is crucial. The position represents Support and customer/ partner feedback in product decisions, serviceability improvements, issue triage, and defect resolution. It also involves identifying systemic or large-impacting issues, coordinating the right collaborators, and raising clarity with leadership when customer or Support impact is significant. Leading or guiding sophisticated lab recreates, technical analysis, data gathering, and storytelling for blocking issues, pro-active engagements, and product-quality discussions is part of the responsibilities. The role leads serviceability improvements for existing and upcoming Meraki Platform capabilities, including documentation, diagnostics, telemetry, workflows, and support tools, as well as support readiness efforts for new platform features, releases, product changes, process updates, and customer-impacting launches. Building, reviewing, and improving support documentation, training material, and timely Support communiques are also key tasks. Additionally, the role seeks opportunities for innovation and automation to reduce manual effort, improve resolution speed, increase support quality, and enhance customer outcomes. Mentoring senior engineers, aspiring technical leaders, and peers through coaching, delegation, technical guidance, and career-development support completes the scope of this leadership position.

Minimum Requirements • 8+ years of IT industry experience in Customer Escalations, Engineering, Technical Support, or related customer-facing technical organizations. • Understanding of Meraki Dashboard, cloud-managed networking, support workflows, product serviceability, and customer-impacting platform behavior. • Demonstrated experience leading complex technical investigations, critical customer issues, or multi-functional product/serviceability engagements. • Experience identifying trends across cases, bugs, telemetry, support signals, customer feedback, and field issues. • Validated ability to work with multi-functional collaborators to drive customer outcomes and product improvements. • Experience creating support documentation, readiness plans, technical training, or support facing communications.

Preferred Qualifications • Strategic Influence & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted advisor, effectively navigating and influencing outcomes across Engineering, Product Management, and Support teams to resolve systemic issues. • Pro-active Technical Leadership: Expertise in shifting from reactive fix to pro-active risk detection, using telemetry, field trends, and dashboard intelligence to stabilize customer environments. • Crisis Management & Resolution: Extensive experience leading high-visibility, critical engagements (e.g., CAPs, Sev0 incidents, CICs) through complex technical analysis, lab recreates, and clear, actionable storytelling. • Product Quality Advocacy: A track record of representing the customer experience in product development cycles, directly impacting serviceability, release readiness, and issue resolution strategies. • Mentorship & Organizational Growth: A commitment to fostering team success through active coaching, delegation, and the development of senior engineers, ensuring a pipeline of technical leadership and shared accountability.

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. 

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