Solutions Engineer - Federal Civil
Splunk
- Washington DC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- We seek talent who will challenge customers in how they are thinking about their problems
- You will also challenge Splunk and be heard in how we serve our customers
- Enlighten and provide insight as to how Splunk can dramatically change customer operations
- Nurture customers toward the realization that Splunk is the only solution of its kind
- Identify, encourage and build Splunk champions within your customers
- Commit to customer success and learn new things.
- Celebrate your customer's success (You'll be doing a lot of this)
- Understand which word is in every bullet above.
- Figure that out and you will understand your mission at Splunk. Have fun!
- Are visionaries who demonstrate that real experience trumps time served
- Treat their job as their craft and are serious about constantly improving it
- Love technology, but more relevantly love articulating our exciting technology
- Embrace preparation to go as broad as possible and as deep as necessary
- Relish being challenged by customers and constantly challenging themselves
- Entice our customers with vision while being pragmatic trusted advisors
- Possess and demonstrate conviction regarding the value of Splunk
- Practical experience with Federal Acquisition processes (RFC, RFI, RFP, etc.)
- Practical experience reviewing and drafting responses to Federal requests for comment, requests for information, requests for proposals, et cetera is helpful
- Passionate about crafting client-ready presentations, whitepapers, discussion documents, and RFP responses that are appropriately scoped, technically accurate, as well as structurally and grammatically precise
- Validated experience communicating the business value of a technical solution via executive-level briefings to CIO, CISO, CIO, technical partners, etc.
- Committed to delivering software or other technical demonstrations to both technical and non-technical staff -- experience doing so with Splunk is highly desirable
- Experience administering both Linux or Windows systems - Linux expertise is also helpful
- Experience coding / scripting to automate common tasks (Python, bash, Ruby, etc.)
- Prior technical sales / technical services experience 3+ years
- Splunk experience is required
- Collaborative experience at a Federal Systems Integrator in a client-facing technical role
- Prior experience using Splunk in an operational context
- Experience designing and implementing analytic dashboards or other visualization improvements in a production environment
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or similar course of study - equivalent professional experience will be considered
- Sense of humor!
- Must currently be authorized to work in the United States on a full time basis