# Senior Solutions Engineer

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

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## Description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is seeking a highly motivated, outcome-focused individual to join its pre-sales Solutions Engineering team as a Senior Solutions Engineer within the German Public Sector team.

As a Splunk Solutions Engineer, you’ll be a technical sales resource for the German Public Sector sales team who support clients across Central and Local Government, Police, Education, and more. You will be the authority on the technical aspects of Splunk's solutions and how they integrate with clients' workflows and tooling.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop and maintain deep expertise of Splunk’s portfolio, use-cases, and its alignment to customer challenges and objectives

- Own Splunk’s portfolio, holistic technical engagement, and customer experience in your accounts

- Drive deeper and broader penetration of Splunk’s products within your accounts

- Operationalize Splunk’s foundational solutions comprised of hybrid/cloud, security, and observability in the customer’s environment

- Build and maintain relationships with key customer personas

- Assemble and lead relevant Splunk technical resources as required to ensure optimal customer outcomes

- Evangelize Splunk’s use-cases at theater/regional industry events and with customers and partners in your region

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- 5+ years related experience in selling and delivering enterprise software solutions for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments

- 5+ years related experience working in or recommending SaaS delivery model

- 5+ years relevant experience in cyber security and/or observability

- Ability to create, lead, and evolve a customer technical account strategy

- Ability to establish trusted technical advisor status with customers

- Familiarity with programming and scripting (e.g., Python, Javascript)

- Relevant software experience in IT Operations/Solutions, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, DevOps, business applications, and/or analytics

- Minimum 3 years practical experience with public cloud infrastructure and understanding of cloud economics

- Minimum 3 years experience of current infrastructure and application monitoring solutions

- Experience in the security space like EDR, XDR, SOC, SOAR, ITOps is a plus

- Experience in working with German Public Sector customers is a plus

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience

- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively lead others in a highly-collaborative team environment

- Excellent presentation skills and an expert in using data to articulate a story or issue

- Excellent time management skills and ability to adapt to evolving priorities

- Ability to be organized and analytical, and will be able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately

- Practical experience with the Splunk platform or competing solutions is a plus

- Available to travel and to visit prospects and customers across Germany

- Fluent in English & German, both written & spoken

## Skills

### Required
- Splunk
- cloud
- security
- observability
- Python
- Javascript
- IT Operations
- Solutions
- enterprise management
- application development
- DevOps
- business applications
- analytics
- public cloud infrastructure
- cloud economics
- infrastructure monitoring
- SIEM
- German

### Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree
- interpersonal skills
- presentation skills
- time management
- communication skills
- Splunk platform

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