Company Description

We are Innovators

We drive innovation to propel business transformation while maintaining operational quality.

We are Accelerators

We accelerate digital solutions to generate cost savings and efficiency gains for enterprise growth and success.

We are Transformers

As customer zero, we transform the customer experience by being our own customer first with agility, quality, and security, we continuously deliver business outcomes for our clients.

Cisco Apprentice Program

Our Apprenticeship Program is a great way for you to experience the corporate world and gain industry relevant knowledge and skills. Depending on the team you would join, you will have the opportunity to learn to do a combination of one or more of the following:

Business Analyst Trainee

• Analyze business processes, find gaps and identify improvement opportunities, work with large amount of data and having business context to derive meaningful insights from the analysis of the data.
• Present data and insights in a logical, influential manner to drive data driven business decisions.
• Exposure to Microsoft Excel, SQL and Power Point and prototyping, solution in sandbox environment.
• Partner with the functional owners on analysis of process and data flows, data stores, and measurements/metrics integration, perform metrics analysis as required to provide actionable information to end users.

Consulting Engineer Trainee

• Solve problems using technologies and determine the best solutions for customers.
• Review network requirements and propose designs to meet business needs.
• Build and maintain relationships with a variety of customers.
• Implement Cisco technologies worldwide and provide optimization to large networks.

Technical Consulting Engineer Trainee

• Work with top engineers while working hands-on with Cisco’s equipment to stay up to date on cutting-edge innovations.
• Be a strategic partner to our customers, saving their business from the impact of network incidents, solving and preventing the recurrence of technical issue.
• Manage and optimize existing networking infrastructure and proactively prevent network impairing incidents.

Associate Sales Trainee

• Progressing deals from Introduction, Discovery and to Custom Demonstration.
• Collaborating alongside Key Account Managers and making marketing events successful.
• Working on client facing activities such as presentations, proposals, business cases, demo etc.
• Learn Sales Analytics and Sales Process excellence.

Marketing Trainee

• Analyze business processes, find gaps and identify improvement opportunities, work with large amount of data and having business context to derive meaningful insights from the analysis of the data.
• Present data and insights in a logical, influential manner to drive data driven business decisions.
• Exposure to Microsoft Excel, SQL and Power Point and prototyping, solution in sandbox environment.
• Partner with the functional owners on analysis of process and data flows, data stores, and measurements/metrics integration, perform metrics analysis as required to provide actionable information to end users.

Site Reliability Engineer Trainee

• Designs, writes, and builds tools to improve the reliability, availability, and scalability of key systems and services.
• Automates deployments, monitors, analyzes and optimizes products / services in Network platforms and environments, Change management procedures and deployment processes.
• Maintains engineering environment to best support automated testing of code that is actively being used by customers. Principle of zero downtime is maintained.
• Site reliability engineers typically create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topic.

Software Engineer Trainee 

• Develop, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs for enhancements and new products. 
• The tech platforms may include but not limited to operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools.

Software Test Engineer  Trainee

• Real-time insights into application performance, user experience and business outcomes.   
• Visibility into end-to-end application performance from user interface points   
• Automation and testing of the products while monitoring cloud-based solutions. 
• Develop frameworks for automating tests that can validate complex distributed systems. 

Hardware Test Engineer Trainee

• Concepts of HDL or other tools to draw schematic design and its process.
• Translating Hardware Schematics design into layout design.
• Execution of test cases using scripts and sharing the test logs, performing analysis on the same.
• Performing different levels of Hardware Automation, Validation and Test where applicable.

Software Developer Trainee

• Programming languages and latest development methodologies.
• Deploying new software and upgrades to a large SaaS environment.
• Change management procedures and deployment processes.
• Developing one or more tools used within the operations team to automate complex tasks

Data Analyst Trainee

• Analyze business processes, find gaps and identify improvement opportunities
• Strong Data analytics and visualization skills: Work with large amount of data and having business context to derive meaningful insights from the analysis of the data.
• Present data and insights in a logical, influential manner to drive data driven business decisions.
• Capture the inventory of Supply Chain data sources, dashboards, measurements, and metrics to prepare and manage integrated data architecture.
• Perform data mapping, lineage, classification and data dictionary to create Master Data Catalogue
• Partner with the functional owners on analysis of data flows, data stores, and measurements/metrics integration.
• Perform metrics analysis as required to provide actionable information to end users.

Hardware Engineer Trainee

• Concepts of HDL or other tools to draw schematic design and its process   
• Translating Hardware Schematics design into layout design    
• Execution of test cases using scripts and sharing the test logs, performing analysis on the same  
• Performing different levels of Hardware Automation, Validation and Test where applicable  

Data Engineer Trainee

• Working with multiple complex data sets to accelerate operational and strategic data-driven decision-making.
• Understanding the opportunities and business drivers and building insight and solutions for those through data
• Opportunity to learn and apply the various data ingestion and data engineering techniques to “Thread the Data” for business consumption and analytics use cases.
• Opportunity to learn and apply data science tools and techniques including python, machine learning and data visualization.
• Come up new ideas to drive data engineering projects to build various data sets for analytical use cases.

Who You Are

• Must have completed a 3 year Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma 
• Must have graduated in 2023/2024 obtained a degree certificate or Provisional Degree Certificate
• Must be available for a period of 12 months starting August 2024.
• Must have good communication skills, passion for technology and the desire to learn with proactive engagement in a team.
• Must have enrolled as a “student” on https://nats.education.gov.in/ and have a valid student enrolment number issued by NATS.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (40 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture enthusiast? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

Note – This is an apprentice training program in line with the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme and is a fixed term program of 12 months.

Disclaimer: 

Cisco’s greatest strength is its people. To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process, and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company.

Please be advised that any communication from Cisco recruiters about careers will:

• Be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company jobs site
• Begin with screening or an interview
• Originate from a Cisco email address, and
• Be conducted across email, phone, or Webex

Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask candidates for payments in any way. All formal applications status can be viewed through https://jobs.cisco.com, with all offers coming from Cisco Recruiting mailer with directions to access via a secure portal. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from sites or channels other than above mentioned, please do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Social Security or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver’s license, or passport.

If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility and cannot be held liable for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate’s hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.