🚀 Solutions Engineer - France

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end‑to‑end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi‑cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

This role primarily provides high level pre‑sales technical support for the development of sales opportunities across France.

Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with peers and the Sales team to identify, grow and land opportunities.
• Build, grow and improve relationships with customer’s communications and prospect’s technical teams.
• Deliver clear, compelling presentations that speak to both business value and technical depth.
• Attend and showcase Splunk solutions at field events, such as conferences and trade shows.
• Respond to the functional and technical elements of tender documents, such as RFIs/RFPs.
• Lead and deliver Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements to a success outcome.
• Answer in depth technical questions plus address customer concerns to a successful outcome.
• Develop relevant presales material, driven insight documents, etc to persuade clients of the outstanding value, benefits and capabilities of Splunk’s solutions.
• Work closely with peers and management to develop and continually improve working practices, methodologies, presales processes, e.g., POC planning, etc.
• Leverage Business Knowledge and Experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of presales or solutions engineering experience with an enterprise software vendor.
• Experience within strategic/enterprise accounts through professional career as a vendor.
• Proven knowledge of the French enterprise customer landscape.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Big Data, Security, Application Performance Management, Operational Intelligence, AI, or Business Intelligence/Web Analytics.
• Proficient in French and English, both written and spoken.
• Degree or similar (preferably in computer science, software engineering or a similar field).
• Experience working with application environments and machine data sources (logs, security, network, and performance data).
• Experience in business analytics, databases and ML/DL.
• Experience developing ROI models and customer value cases.
• Familiarity with financial services, insurance, telecom, or retail industries.
• Strong communicator with the ability to simplify complexity and build trust with customers.
• Proactive and able to act in a self‑sufficient manner.
• Excellent team skills.
• Self‑motivated with technical software sales and knowledge of technology.
• Ability to be organized and analytical, able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.

Why Splunk?

At Splunk, we help organizations unlock the power of their data to drive innovation, efficiency, and security. As part of our team, you’ll work with leading enterprises, solve complex challenges, and see your impact come to life. We foster a culture of curiosity, creativity, and collaboration—where your ideas matter and your career can grow.

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.