# Splunk Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Splunk, a Cisco company
**Location**: Wallisellen
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Splunk Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers and partners in Switzerland.

You will design and deliver innovative technical solutions addressing business needs, ensuring long-term customer success in the region.

**Responsibilities**

- Serve as primary technical sales engineer and trusted advisor for customers and partners in Switzerland, focusing on global accounts in financial services and insurance sectors.

- Design and present relevant Splunk and Cisco technical solutions based on identified business requirements to solve enterprise challenges.

- Lead engagements with IT professionals and business decision-makers to translate strategic business needs into actionable technical requirements.

- Guide a virtual support team of sales resources to efficiently move deals through the technical sales process.

- Collaborate with account and connected sales teams on comprehensive customer plans to ensure joint customer success and satisfaction.

- Work with Global Splunk and Cisco diverse teams.

- Maintain knowledge of the Splunk and Cisco portfolio to drive cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, creating use-cases aligned to customer challenges and objectives.

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

- Provide active feedback to Sales teams regarding strategic customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive tactics to inform product strategy.

- Dedicate the majority of your selling time to landing new opportunities and growing the footprint within existing accounts.

- Lead the technical relationship with customers and partners, maintaining deep knowledge of their environments and competitor plays to position solutions effectively.

- Leverage relevant tools and resources to support deals and achieve key success metrics, including increased revenue and net new customer acquisition.

**Minimum qualifications**

- 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering or a related technical sales role within the enterprise software industry.

- 5+ years of relevant experience in cyber security and/or observability is highly desired.

- Demonstrated experience configuring, deploying, or selling Splunk software and platforms in a technical, engineering, or sales capacity.

- Experience leading technical sales cycles, including designing and presenting technical architectures to enterprise customers.

- Experience collaborating with account teams and virtual support teams in a B2B enterprise software environment.

**Preferred qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience.

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

- Relevant industry or vendor certifications, such as Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, or Cisco certifications are a plus.

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

- Previous experience working directly with enterprise customers and partners within the Swiss market.

- Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Strong problem-solving abilities and a strategic mindset to navigate competitive sales environments.

- Available to travel up to 50% to visit prospects and customers across Switzerland and internationally if needed.

- Fluent German (both written & spoken)

## Skills

### Required
- Splunk
- Cisco
- Solutions Engineering
- cyber security
- observability
- technical sales
- German

### Nice to have
- Splunk Core Certified Power User
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
- Cisco certifications

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