Solutions Architect - Splunk

Cisco Systems, Inc; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a sizing, architecture & governance engineer to shape sizing frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling that map customer workloads to infrastructure. You’ll influence upstream architecture and assist with high-visibility escalations, reducing issues reaching customers.

The role requires strong SPL expertise, Python scripting, and knowledge of networking and storage pipelines, with a collaborative, multi-time-zone team across Australia, the US and the UK.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Splunk platform architecture.
• Production-level proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python preferred).
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain root cause and remediation.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Shape sizing architecture: frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling that map workloads to infrastructure.
• Ensure sizing problems do not reach customers; influence upstream architecture.
• Support high-visibility escalations when needed, coordinating across teams.

Skills

SPL

Python

Networking

OS internals

Storage/data pipelines

Communication

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's + 5 years or Master's/PhD + 2 years

Tools

Splunk

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.