Cisco

Solutions Engineer - INTEL/Defense

Cisco • $218K — $286K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in enterprise software sales and delivery, particularly with Splunk solutions
  • Experience with SaaS delivery models
  • Proven ability to develop and lead customer technical account strategies
  • Willingness to travel within the Washington, DC area
  • Active TS/SCI/CI poly government clearance
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and Splunk teams for long-term success
  • Develop deep expertise in Splunk's portfolio and customer alignment
  • Own end-to-end technical engagement and customer experience
  • Drive Solutions Architect engagements to expand use-cases
  • Operationalize Splunk's solutions in customer environments

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility from Maryland, Washington, DC, or Virginia
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in security and observability
  • Engagement with a diverse customer base
  • Collaboration with a highly skilled team
  • Professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 10/04/2026

This role can be performed remotely from Maryland, Washington, DC or Virginia only

Your impact:

Splunk's technical sellers seek to unify, advance, and expand the value of the Splunk portfolio by providing deep technical and domain expertise to introduce and operationalize Security and Observability use-cases and solutions. The Solutions Engineers (SEs) are Splunk's customer-facing technical account leader. Their purpose is to partner with customers and Splunk teams to ensure long-term success and growth within Splunk's customer base. SEs are responsible for the breadth of technical engagement within their assigned customers across products, domains, and use cases.
  • Partner with customers and Splunk teams to ensure long-term success and growth within Splunk's customer base
  • Develop and maintain deep expertise of Splunk's portfolio, use-cases, and its alignment to customer challenges and objectives
  • Own Splunk's portfolio, end-to-end technical engagement, and customer experience in your accounts
  • Drive the Solutions Architect engagements for positioning Splunk's advanced solutions to expand solutions and use-cases
  • Operationalize Splunk's foundational solutions comprised of hybrid/cloud, security, and observability in the customer's environment

Minimum qualifications:
  • 4 or more years related experience in selling and delivering enterprise software solutions for cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments related to Splunk solutions
  • Experience working in or recommending SaaS delivery model
  • Ability to create, lead and evolve a customer technical account strategy, engaging an extended ecosystem of supporting resources to deliver the customer's expected business outcomes
  • Ability to travel to visit prospects and customers in the Washington, DC region
  • Active government clearance TS/SCI/CI poly

Preferred qualifications:
  • Extensive knowledge cybersecurity and/or observability is highly desired
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills and excellent communication - both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively lead others in a highly-collaborative team environment
  • Strong presentation skills and an expert in using data to articulate a story or issue in a Tell-Show-Tell format
  • Prior experience working with public cloud infrastructure and understanding of cloud economics (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to adapt to evolving priorities, with a dedication to championing the customer and your team
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

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