Consulting Solution Engineer - Security & Compliance

Consulting Solution Engineer - Security & Compliance

Role: A Consulting Solutions Engineer supports the pre-sales process for our technical field team.

You will work with Splunk’s account teams on the solution and technical aspects of selling Splunk’s security solutions to Federal clients. You will be the "eyes & ears" for the field serving as the subject matter expert for our security products, supporting customers and prospects in the region.

Location: Greater Washington, DC area or any other US metropolitan city

Travel: Up to 40%

Responsibilities:

• Establishing and proactively maintaining valuable relationships with clients and partners.
• Work closely with direct account teams to understand sales strategies and plan for support of that strategy including briefings, demos, proposals, Proof of Values (POVs), integrations and issue resolution for Splunk’s security portfolio.
• Communicate directly with Spunk customers to understand security architecture, infrastructure, and cyber security objectives in order to map a customer’s security priorities to Splunk product capabilities.
• Ability to demonstrate Splunk’s security products and services to customers on site, remotely via webinar sessions, and at field events such as conferences and trade shows.
• Experience responding to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.
• Hands-on leadership to resolution of technical/integration problems.
• Self-motivated with a consistent track record in technical software sales and knowledge of security technology.
• Solid ability to collaborate and dynamic presentation skills and ability to communicate clearly to emails and RFPs when submitting reports.
• Ability to be organized and analytical, and will be able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
• Comfortable working for a dynamic technical organization with a fast growing customer base.
• IMPORTANT: We can teach you the technology, coach you on soft skills and educate you on processes. You should have a strong sense of self-motivation, an insatiable curiosity about what “is possible” with technology, the desire to work with an awesome team and a positive, fun-loving attitude.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a successful pre-sales engineer (SE), systems integrator, or equivalent experience within the domain of cybersecurity
• Experience with Defense, Intelligence Community or Federal Systems Integrators (FSI’s)
• Familiarity with modern cyber threats and malware, incident response (IR) practices, security information and event management (SIEM), automation tools, and endpoint technologies.
• Experience with systems installation, configuration and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux, and Windows-based systems
• Familiarity with scripting languages -- particularly Python
• Familiarity with “big data” technologies (Map-Reduce, Hadoop Ecosystem, Spark, NoSQL)
• Highly desirable industry certifications include: SANS GIAC, CISSP, CISM, etc.
• Mature and effective time-management skills
• Available to travel to visit prospects and customers in the region.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, substantial relevant on the job experience.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Clearance preferred.

About Us:

• Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant Leader for SIEM
• Named Top 5 on the 2020 Fortune Future 50 list
• Named one of the “Best Places to Work” for Women, Parents, and in Technology
• Vice President of Public Sector Frank Dimina named as one of Washington Exec’s Top 30 Public Sector Leaders
• Chief Technical Adviser for Public Sector, Juliana Vida, named as one of Washington Exec's Top 25 Cyber Execs

Are you looking for an incredible place to work that celebrates innovation, leadership and creativity? Please contact us. Splunk offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits. When you join Splunk you'll be working with a team of smart people who are as passionate about our products as our customers' success.

We value diversity at our company. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which you are applying.