Meet The Team
Are you ready to begin new challenges and grow your career in Splunk? Join our team as a Splunk Sales Engineer, where you'll help redefine how businesses use information in decision-making. This is your chance to serve as the key advisor for Splunk's innovative offerings alongside our sales team, customers, and partners!
Your Impact
- Proficient in demonstrating and promoting Splunk products and services to customers on-site, remotely via webinars, and at field events like conferences and trade shows.
- Act as an expert on Splunk technology and applications, and provide product feedback to cross-functional teams.
- Synthesize information from research and discovery to articulate Splunk's value and recommend targeted solutions based on customer needs and challenges.
- Develop and deliver impactful presentations that map the customer journey to Splunk's use case roadmap.
- Build positive relationships throughout the sales process, becoming a trusted technical advisor.
- Independently manages/lead a team of technical sales professionals (if needed) and collaborate as a key technical advisor for customers.
- Handle technical questions and challenges regarding Splunk's technology, features, solutions, and applications.
- Develop strong response strategies for RFPs/RFIs, and lead or participate in Proof of Concept/Proof of Value events from establishing compelling event to success criteria, scope, set-up and final present back.
- Champion new solutions, knowledge, processes, and tools within the team.
- Proficiently collaborate with wider teams in UEM on complicated accounts to identify technical risks, mitigate sales and adoption obstacles, and drive overall customer contentment.
- Partner with marketing to build impactful content and showcase Splunk in marketing and industry events.
Minimum QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficient presales/technical sales experience in a software vendor environment
- Validated results in technical software vendor sales.
- Skilled in performing discovery to understand customer goals and challenges, and demonstrating how Splunk's solutions can address them
- Proficient experience responding to all elements of RFIs/RFPs, including positioning Splunk against competition -
- Exceptional teammate, responsible for the technology evaluation stage of the sales cycle
- Proficiency in Splunk's overall offerings, able to provide hands-on demonstrations and technical leadership
- Ability to work independently to identify all technical issues of your assigned accounts and mitigate issues and risks, ensuring customer's contentment.
- Willingness and ability to travel, engaging with partners, prospects, and customers in person as needed.
TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW:
- Security controls within an enterprise environment (eg. Firewalls, IDPS, Proxies/Load Balancers, WAF, EDR, Cloud Security, Container Security, SAST/DAST, DDoS etc)
- SIEM, XDR, SOAR, TIP technologies
- SOC processes and procedures
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- Additional frameworks eg NISTISO27001Cyber Kill Chain
- Emerging security trends e.g AIML, Bedrock
Preferred QUALIFICATIONS:
-Strong self-motivation and a growth mindset to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment - Excellent communication, presentation, and social skills with the ability to influence and address customer needs
- Relevant certifications in CISSP/CEH/GIAC/CCSP, AWS/Azure/GCP
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
- Presales/technical sales experience in a software vendor environment
- Proven results in technical software vendor sales
- Skilled in discovery to understand customer goals and challenges
- Experience responding to RFIs/RFPs and positioning solutions against competition
- Proficiency in Splunk offerings with hands-on demonstration capability
- Ability to independently identify and mitigate technical issues and risks for assigned accounts
- Willingness and ability to travel for on-site customer, partner, and field events
- Knowledge of enterprise security controls (Firewalls, IDPS, Proxies/Load Balancers, WAF, EDR, Cloud/Container Security, SAST/DAST, DDoS)
- Experience with SIEM, XDR, SOAR, TIP technologies
- Familiarity with SOC processes and procedures
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework and security frameworks (NIST, ISO27001, Cyber Kill Chain)
- Awareness of emerging security trends (AI/ML, Bedrock)
- Strong self-motivation and growth mindset
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, CEH, GIAC, CCSP) and cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
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.
