Solutions Architect - Splunk

115 Cisco Systems Australia Pty Limited; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking aSizing Architect for the Splunk Cloud SAG team to shape sizing frameworks and tooling that map customer workloads to infrastructure. You will impact solutions architecture across Australia, the US, and the UK, ensuring sizing problems do not surface to customers.

You will work on on-call rotations, develop diagnostic tooling in Python, and leverage your SPL and cloud sizing experience to optimize capacity planning and pricing models.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk SPL and platform architecture — indexing, search, distributed deployments.
• Production-level proficiency in Python or similar for tooling and diagnostics.
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines for root-cause analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain root cause and remediation to engineers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Shape sizing architecture, frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling for mapping workloads to infrastructure.
• Ensure sizing problems do not reach customers; contribute to upstream solution architecture.
• Support high-visibility escalations as needed while focusing on upstream architecture improvements.

Skills

SPL expertise

Python

Networking & OS knowledge

Communication skills

On-call support

Distributed deployments

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years

Master's/PhD + 2 years

Tools

Splunk

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Job description

Meet the Team

You'll join Splunk Cloud's Sizing, Architecture & Governance (SAG) team. We decide how customer workloads map to infrastructure: the sizing tools the field uses, certification and capacity work for new instance types, and the sizing logic behind new pricing models. The team spans tooling, SRE, and solutions architecture, with teammates in Australia, US and UK.

Your Impact

You'll help shape sizing architecture — the frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling that decide how customer workloads map to infrastructure. Get it right, and sizing problems never reach the customer. You'll sometimes support high-visibility escalations, but your real impact is upstream in solutions' architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Splunk platform architecture — indexing, search, distributed deployments
• Production-level proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python preferred), enough to build and debug diagnostic tooling
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines — enough to root-cause issues across infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable explaining root cause and remediation to engineers and customers alike
• Able to join an on-call rotation covering customer escalations outside business hours
• Bachelor's + 5 years, or Master's/PhD + 2 year of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure capacity/sizing modeling or similar quantitative systems work
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure sizing — AWS/GCP/Azure instance types, storage tiering
• Experience on a distributed/async team spanning multiple time zones

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. Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.