Description
We are looking for a deep technical authority to join us as a Cisco Splunk Solutions Engineer (SE). As an SE at Cisco, you'll be the authority for your architecture, acting as the driving force behind our most technical sales, demonstrating undeniable expertise and winning the trust of our customers through your deep knowledge and outstanding skills.
Responsibilities:
- Be the Technical Authority: Own and win the technical decision. Lead breakdown sessions, competitive bake-offs, and sophisticated proofs-of-value that prove Cisco's superiority.
- Master and Promote: Serve as the go-to authority; articulating its vision, strategy, and technical details to audiences from engineers to executives.
- Design for Complexity: Architect and validate trailblazing, single-architecture solutions for our customers' most high-reaching requirements, ensuring technical excellence and adaptability.
- Win as a Team: Partner with Cisco ecosystem and Account Managers to provide the critical domain expertise needed to win strategic opportunities. Be the authoritative voice on the account team.
- Mentor and Scale Expertise: Act as a force multiplier, mentoring and enabling the broader SE community on your technology. Develop and share protocols that elevate the entire organization.
- Influence Product Direction: Serve as a critical feedback loop to Cisco's engineering and business units. Your real-world insights will directly influence the roadmap and future of our products.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of demonstrated ability in a pre-sales engineering or a similar deep technical role (e.g., professional services, security analyst, SRE)
- 5+ years of broad and deep technical knowledge across one of the following areas: Security, observability, event, or network management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience building and maintaining positive relationships with customers and partners.
- 5+ years of communication and presentation skills with internal partners or external customers
- Observability or security pre-sales experience
- Extensive experience with completing RFXs, competitive analysis, positioning, and first-hand competitive bake-offs.
- Relevant industry certifications relevant to your specialty (e.g., CISSP)
- Strong understanding of automation, APIs, and programmability within your domain of expertise.
- Experience in a thought leadership role (e.g., public speaking, writing technical blogs or whitepapers)
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Salary Range: $209,100.00 to $275,100.00