Solutions Engineer- Splunk

Cisco • Richardson, RI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back. Looking for a role that blends your communication skills with your need to dabble in technology? We’re looking for Solutions Engineers who are interested in exploring a career connecting people, and business through technology. Splunk’s technical sellers seek to unify, advance, and expand the value of the Splunk portfolio by providing deep technical and domain expertise to introduce and operationalize Security and Observability use-cases and solutions. The Solutions Engineers (SEs) are Splunk’s customer-facing technical account leader. Their purpose is to partner with customers and Splunk teams to ensure long-term success and growth within Splunk’s customer base. SEs are responsible for the breadth of technical engagement within their assigned customers across products, domains, and use cases. SEs are the Trusted Technical Advisor for customers and represent the entire Splunk portfolio to the customer. SEs are responsible for building a joint technical roadmap, identifying and driving new outcomes, and ensuring the plans to operationalize Splunk’s solutions to discrete customer outcomes. In this role you will work with and lead the entire Splunk village in effective and efficient technical customer engagement.

Requirements

• Ability to start on Monday January 11, 2027
• Willingness to relocate to Boulder (Colorado), Dallas (Texas), or McLean (Virginia)
• Possess a technical foundation in IT, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or other related technical experience
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and oral, and an ability to communicate complex ideas to all levels of the business
• A confident and comfortable presenter interested in developing these skills further
• Ability to be organized and analytical, and will be able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches

Responsibilities

• Partner with a tenured Solutions Engineer
• Shadow customer calls and partner on presentation development, workshops and/or technical concept proof events to close the deal
• Meet weekly with your team, manager and mentors and discuss what you’ve learned
• Hone your presentation skills and prepare to present technical concepts to customers and how to discover their needs
• Collaborate with peers in developing a knowledge resource for future incoming Solutions Engineers in training
• Polish your evangelizing technique talking about our products and services to customers (without being pushy!)
• Earn Splunk Certifications during your Fellowship (Splunk Power User, Enterprise Admin, Cloud Admin, and AWS Cloud Practitioner)
• Meet Splunkers from all walks of life and explore what Splunk has to offer

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
• flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
• performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed