Senior Solutions Engineer - Splunk (Perth)
Cisco is hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer - Splunk (Perth) (Australia). Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.
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- Tools and skills the posting cites include Splunk, pre sales and solution engineering.
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AI in this role
Drive growth and adoption of Splunk solutions as a senior technical pre-sales leader in Perth.
Location: Must be based in or within a commutable distance to Perth, WA.
Work Authorisation for Australia: Must be authorised to work in Australia without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.
Meet the Team
Join our dynamic Solution Engineering team in Perth, Australia, and be part of a
results-driven pre-sales group. Our collaborative team spans sales, customer success, support, marketing, and G&A, fostering innovation, empowerment, and hands-on learning. We celebrate each other’s successes while delivering an exceptional experience for our customers.
Your Impact
As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will be a technical leader in driving growth and adoption of Splunk solutions with enterprise customers. You will:
• Demonstrate and evangelise Splunk products and services through onsite and virtual sessions, webinars, and field events.
• Lead discovery calls and conversations to identify and validate opportunities,
independently or with your sales counterpart.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with customers and partners
throughout the sales cycle and beyond.
• Conduct customer engagements onsite and virtually, including Proof of Value/Concept demonstrations, workshops, etc..
• Address complex technical inquiries, provide guidance and resolve customer
concerns to ensure successful outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve working
practices, processes, and customer success.
• Evangelise Splunk value & capabilities at user groups, marketing/industry events,
etc..
• Work in a highly collaborative Team environment, building the skills & knowledge
to support your customers & peers
Minimum Qualifications
• Proven experience in enterprise presales, ideally 5+ years, with a technical focus.
• Ability to understand complex application environments and machine data
sources (logs, security data, network data, etc.).
• Experience in observability solutions (APM, RUM, OTEL, etc..) and/or Security solutions (SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability detection, etc..)
• Strong ability to articulate complex technical solutions to customers and
partners.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver customer value and
improve processes.
Preferred Qualifications
• Hands-on knowledge of Splunk solutions and experience demonstrating their
value to enterprise customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Working knowledge of AI concepts & practical adoption of AI capabilities
• Familiarity with open-source technologies, search engines, and query
languages.
• Ability to thrive in a multicultural, fast-paced environment.
• Passion for technology, innovation, and customer success.
Why Cisco?At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
How we rate this
Senior Solutions Engineer - Splunk (Perth) at Cisco rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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