# Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Splunk, a Cisco company
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Splunk as a Solutions Engineer and work with the UK Commercial Sales team to support clients in the UK. As a technical sales resource, you will be the authority on the technical aspects of solutions and their integration within clients' workflows and tooling.

Responsibilities:

- Establish and own strong technical relationships within the territories you support.

- Own achieving the ‘technical win’; moving opportunities from qualification to technical validation and into business validation.

- Develop technical activity plans to help customers technically validate Splunk products and services.

- Partner with the Regional Sales Manager in meetings with customers to discover their needs and how Splunk can meet them.

- Support clients through the buying process by running presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and answering technical questions.

- Scope and run Proof of Concepts with clients to agreed success criteria and timelines.

- Ensure your knowledge and skills of Splunk solutions are up to date.

- Maintain timely updates on the state of your opportunities in Salesforce.

Attributes:

- Self-motivated to research and learn to fill gaps in knowledge.

- Innovative in finding solutions to customer needs.

- Passionate about solving meaningful problems with data.

- Disruptive and willing to challenge and improve working practices.

- Curious with a growth mindset and willingness to be coached.

- Adaptable with the ability to shift to constantly evolving requirements.

Requirements:

- Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately.

- Strong presentation and demonstration skills.

- Ability to actively listen.

- Good organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills.

Required Technical Knowledge:

- Linux or Windows knowledge.

- Basic network connectivity troubleshooting.

- Infrastructure as a Service platforms: AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.

- IT architecture concepts such as High Availability, Disaster Recovery.

Highly Desirable Knowledge and Experience:

- Experience selling SaaS services or data solutions.

- Domain knowledge in security operations, DevOps, IT operations, big data, or log management.

- Experience using regular expressions.

- Experience coding in Python.

- Experience working with REST APIs.

- Experience with container and container orchestration technology.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- Windows
- network connectivity troubleshooting
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- IT architecture

### Nice to have
- SaaS services
- data solutions
- security operations
- DevOps
- IT operations
- big data
- log management
- regular expressions
- Python
- REST APIs
- container technology

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