Solutions Engineer: Splunk & Cisco Security Integrations

Cisco; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco, in partnership with Splunk, is seeking a Solutions Engineer in South Africa to lead technical discovery and architectural whiteboarding, securing technical wins and driving sales quotas. You will map joint Cisco and Splunk integration plays to deliver unified security and observability solutions.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Account Executives, CISOs, SOC Managers, and Channel Partners to ensure high customer adoption, strengthen security postures, and enable observability across

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or solutions architecture.
• Experience configuring SIEM platforms, and/or enterprise Cybersecurity/SecOps solutions.
• Experience administering and navigating enterprise infrastructure, specifically Linux and Windows operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise technical discovery, architectural whiteboarding, and custom live demonstrations to showcase platform value to prospective customers.
• Manage and execute competitive Proof of Values (PoVs) across Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Enterprise Security (ES), ITSI, and Observability Cloud to validate technical capabilities.
• Position joint Cisco and Splunk integration plays, including Cisco Security Cloud with Splunk ES and ThousandEyes with Splunk Observability, to provide unified security and observability solutions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Account Executives, CISOs, SOC Managers, and Channel Partners to align technical solutions with overarching business goals.
• Achieve ACV/TCV sales quotas and maintain a technical win rate of over 75% through effective technical solution mapping.
• Generate joint Cisco cross-sell pipeline opportunities to expand our market footprint and ensure high customer adoption.
• Mentor newer Solutions Engineers and contribute reusable demo assets to support and grow the global technical community.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Solutions engineering

Cybersecurity

Tools

Splunk

SIEM

Splunk Enterprise Security

ThousandEyes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Cisco, in partnership with Splunk, is seeking a Solutions Engineer in South Africa to lead technical discovery and architectural whiteboarding, securing technical wins and driving sales quotas. You will map joint Cisco and Splunk integration plays to deliver unified security and observability solutions.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Account Executives, CISOs, SOC Managers, and Channel Partners to ensure high customer adoption, strengthen security postures, and enable observability across