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.
Skills Required
- Must be based in or within commuting distance of Perth, Western Australia
- Must be authorised to work in Australia without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
- 5+ years of enterprise pre-sales experience with a technical focus
- Ability to understand complex application environments and machine data sources, including logs, security data, and network data
- Experience with observability solutions such as APM, RUM, or OpenTelemetry, and/or security solutions such as SIEM, SOAR, or vulnerability detection
- Strong ability to articulate complex technical solutions to customers and partners
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver customer value and improve processes
- 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 and 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
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
