Description
Cisco Professional Services is looking for a Security Consulting Engineering Technical Leader to join our Splunk Security practice in Poland.
As a Technical Leader, you'll be the most senior authority on our Splunk Security delivery team in Krakow. You'll work with high autonomy, acting as the main person to call when complex security platform issues arise. You'll influence more than just individual projects, you'll help shape the Splunk product roadmap by working closely with our engineering teams and building tools that make the entire team faster and more efficient.
Your Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Oversee the delivery of high-stakes programs, define blueprints for SOAR frameworks and hybrid cloud environments, and advise senior leadership on long-term security strategy.
- Building Knowledge: Create and share essential assets like threat detection libraries, blueprints for SOCs, and deployment guides.
- Security Engineering: Design advanced threat detection systems and build complex automation programs.
- Coaching & Pre-Sales: Mentor junior security consultants and lead pre-sales work.
Minimum qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's in CS, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of experience; Master's with 5+ years; or PhD with 2+ years.
- Certifications: Expert-level certification (like CCIE or CISSP) or proof of deep technical mastery.
- Consulting Experience: 7+ years of experience in enterprise security, specifically in consulting or professional services.
- Deep Expertise: Expert in at least one of Splunk Enterprise Security architecture, SIEM platform design, SOC operations, security automation, or threat detection engineering.
- Proven Impact: History of building tools, playbooks, or frameworks that others use.
- Collaboration: Experience working with product and engineering teams to solve complex problems.
- Technical Skills: Strong in scripting (Python), REST APIs, and automation and workflow tools.
- Communication: Can explain complex tech to executives and persuade people at all levels.
Preferred qualifications:
- Splunk Certs: Splunk-specific certifications (Architect, Cybersecurity Analyst, SOAR Developer, etc.).
- AI Certs: AWS AI Practitioner, Azure AI App & Agent Developer, AWS ML Engineer - Associate.
- Security Domains: Certifications like CEH, GIAC, or CompTIA Security+.
- Innovation: Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, or DevSecOps.