Solutions Engineer - Data & Security Platform (UK & Ireland)

624 Cisco International Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Splunk, a Cisco company, seeks a highly motivated Solutions Engineer to join the UK Commercial Sales team and grow our business in Ireland and Scotland. Based in Ireland or Scotland, willing to travel as required, you will work with a wider UK SE group and interact with Public and Private sector customers.

You will establish strong technical relationships, drive technical validation and proof of concepts, and tailor Splunk solutions to customer needs, helping customers derive measurable value

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate clearly in meetings, calls, emails and reports.
• Strong presentation and demonstration skills.
• Experience with REST APIs and Python is desirable.
• Experience with container orchestration is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own strong technical relationships within the territories you support.
• Own achieving the ‘technical win’; moving opportunities from qualification to technical validation and into business validation.
• Develop technical activity plans to help the customer technically validate the Splunk products and services and achieve meaningful value outcomes post- sale.
• Partner with the Regional Sales Manager in in-person and remote meetings with customers to discover customers’ needs and how Splunk can meet those needs.
• Support our clients through the buying process by running presentations, demonstrations, workshops and answering technical questions to validate Splunk as the right solution.
• Scope and run Proof of Concepts with clients to agreed success criteria and timelines.
• Ensure your knowledge and skills of Splunk solutions are up to date.
• Maintain timely updates on the state of your opportunities in Salesforce.

Skills

Technical sales

Solution design

Customer engagement

Presentation skills

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Salesforce

Sales demos

Job description

Splunk, a Cisco company, seeks a highly motivated Solutions Engineer to join the UK Commercial Sales team and grow our business in Ireland and Scotland. Based in Ireland or Scotland, willing to travel as required, you will work with a wider UK SE group and interact with Public and Private sector customers.

You will establish strong technical relationships, drive technical validation and proof of concepts, and tailor Splunk solutions to customer needs, helping customers derive measurable value