Splunk Hiring for Sr. Sales Engineer at Fort Meade Full Time

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most meaningfully to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

This is an opportunity to work at a company that is changing the way information supports business decisions. You will be actively responsible for actively driving and handling the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and advocate for our products and services. As a valued Splunk SE, you will also be able to answer technical inquiries from customers regarding Splunk technology, features, solutions, applications as well as articulate Splunk technology and product positioning to both business and technical users. You will discern all technical issues of your assigned accounts to assure complete customer happiness through all stages of the technical sales cycle, and you should also establish and nurture positive relationships with our customer’s technical staff.

This role is working with Federal customers.

Responsibilities

• 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!

  Our Most Successful Sales Engineers:

• Are visionaries who demonstrate that real experience outweighs 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

• 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

  Highly desirable attributes:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Clearance

• Active TS/SCI or higher clearance preferred

• Practical experience designing technical solutions to meet Federal government customer requirements

• Experience working with a CSP IaaS and PaaS offerings

• Knowledge and expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Azure certifications a plus 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

• Prior technical sales / technical services experience 5+ years

  Other desirable differentiators:

• 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!

  We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants 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 the candidate is applying. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

About Splunk

Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.

Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.

Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!

Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.

We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.

Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!

SF Only

Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Non SF

Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.

This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?

Individuals seeking employment at Splunk are considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition (except where physical fitness is a valid occupational qualification), genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. Click here to review the US Department of Labor’s EEO is The Law notice. Please click here to review Splunk’s Affirmative Action Policy Statement.

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