# Splunk Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco as a Splunk Solutions Engineer and help redefine how businesses use information in decision-making. As a key advisor for Splunk's innovative offerings, you'll work alongside the sales team, customers, and partners.

**Responsibilities:**

- Demonstrate and promote Splunk products and services to customers on-site, remotely via webinars, and at field events

- Act as an expert on Splunk technology and applications, providing product feedback to cross-functional teams

- Synthesize information to articulate Splunk's value and recommend targeted solutions based on customer needs and challenges

- Develop and deliver impactful presentations that map the customer journey to Splunk's use case roadmap

- Build positive relationships throughout the sales process, becoming a trusted technical advisor

- Independently manage/lead a team of technical sales professionals and collaborate as a key technical advisor for customers

- Handle technical questions and challenges regarding Splunk's technology, features, solutions, and applications

- Develop strong response strategies for RFPs/RFIs and lead or participate in Proof of Concept/Proof of Value events

- Champion new solutions, knowledge, processes, and tools within the team

- Collaborate with wider teams to identify technical risks, mitigate sales and adoption obstacles, and drive overall customer contentment

- Partner with marketing to build impactful content and showcase Splunk in marketing and industry events

**MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:**

- Proficient presales/technical sales experience in a software vendor environment

- Validated results in technical software vendor sales

- Skilled in performing discovery to understand customer goals and challenges, and demonstrating how Splunk's solutions can address them

- Proficient experience responding to RFIs/RFPs, including positioning Splunk against competition

- Exceptional teamwork skills, responsible for the technology evaluation stage of the sales cycle

- Proficiency in Splunk's overall offerings, able to provide hands-on demonstrations and technical leadership

- Ability to work independently to identify technical issues and mitigate risks

- Willingness and ability to travel to engage with partners, prospects, and customers in person as needed

**TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW:**

- Security controls within an enterprise environment (e.g. Firewalls, IDPS, Proxies/Load Balancers, WAF, EDR, Cloud Security, Container Security, SAST/DAST, DDoS)

- SIEM, XDR, SOAR, TIP technologies

- SOC processes and procedures

- MITRE ATT&CK Framework

- Additional frameworks (e.g. NIST, ISO27001, Cyber Kill Chain)

- Emerging security trends (e.g. AI/ML, Bedrock)

**NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:**

- Strong self-motivation and a growth mindset to thrive in a fast-paced environment

- Excellent communication, presentation, and social skills

- Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP, CEH, GIAC, CCSP, AWS, Azure, GCP)

## Skills

### Required
- Splunk
- SIEM
- XDR
- SOAR
- TIP
- SOC
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- Security controls
- Cloud Security
- Container Security

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- CEH
- GIAC
- CCSP
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP

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