What We Do

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. We build open-source software and enterprise solutions addressing networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud-native infrastructure. Powered by flagship technologies, Cilium and Tetragon, our Isovalent Enterprise Platform is chosen by industry-leading global organizations for its innovative capabilities.

Meet the Team

Join the Isovalent Technical MindshareTeam, where we are passionate about creating exceptional content about cloud native networking and security. We write blog posts, speak at conferences, create hands-on labs, prepare reusable demos, make case studies, run workshops, record videos, tackle reference architectures, and sometimes even find the time to author books and white papers. As part of a growing team at the forefront of innovation, you'll work with groundbreaking technologies like Cilium and Tetragon and play a pivotal role in introducing the technology to users, prospects, and customers. With our acquisition by Cisco, this is an exciting time to join a team that values creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll be instrumental in driving Isovalent’s content strategy and execution in the public cloud space, ensuring we create engaging content around public cloud challenges and solutions that sparks curiosity in prospects, customers, partners, and topic related communities alike.

What Success Looks Like

Use your domain knowledge and technical expertise and build engaging technical content that helps our sales teams, partners, customers, and the community to learn the value and benefits of our cloud native solutions in the context of public cloud challenges.

Create blog posts, practical guides, product demos, case studies, white papers, presentations, video, etc. advocating and educating network engineers, DevOps, SecOps, SREs, and Kubernetes platform ops.

Research new use cases and create technical content for them in collaboration with product management, product marketing and engineering.

Run webinars and workshops and take part in topic related conferences in close cooperation with the field and events teams.

Minimum Qualifications

As a key part of our content team, you:

• Overall 10+ Years of industry experience
• Will either have 5+ years of experience in technical writing, technical marketing OR 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing role like sales engineer or solution architect.
• Are able to adapt product storytelling into compelling write-ups and demos.
• Have previously worked in a technical marketing function on topics related to Cilium, Tetragon, and eBPF.
• Have good knowledge of Linux and Kubernetes.
• Have deep understanding and familiarity of public cloud technologies (EKS, AKS, etc).

Preferred Experience

• Experience participating in Open Source projects.
• Experience with operating Kubernetes.
• Experience in network engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% and manage remote work effectively.
• Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Cisco networking knowledge is a bonus.

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. 

Disclaimer

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