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These technically skilled, solutions-focused individuals build positive relationships, understand customer needs and deliver innovative, effective outcomes. Groundbreaking ideas impact everything; here that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact! Seize the opportunity to work with a close-knit group of forward-thinkers and technical problem-solvers, delivering impactful results.\nYour Impact\nSplunk, a Cisco Company, is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Solutions Engineer to join our Manufacturing vertical. In this role, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping our manufacturing customers harness the power of their data to drive digital transformation and operational resilience. You will focus on empowering global manufacturing leaders to secure their digital infrastructure and ensure peak performance through advanced Security (SIEM/SOAR) and Observability (APM/Infrastructure Monitoring) strategies. The ideal candidate is a consultative expert who can translate complex technical telemetry into high-impact business outcomes.\nTechnical Partnership: Act as the primary technical lead during the sales cycle, conducting high-level discovery sessions to understand the unique cybersecurity and performance challenges of manufacturing clients.\nSolution Architecture: Design and architect robust Splunk deployments that aggregate data from enterprise IT environments, cloud architectures, and digital business systems to provide unified visibility.\nValue Demonstration: Develop and deliver customized product demonstrations and Proof of Concept (POC) engagements that highlight the value of real-time threat detection, incident response automation, and full-stack observability.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Account Executives, Product Management, and Professional Services teams to align Splunk’s capabilities with the digital roadmap requirements of the manufacturing sector.\nThought Leadership: Present at industry conferences and internal forums on the importance of cyber resilience, modern observability, and the role of data analytics in digital transformation.\nStrategic Enablement: Build reusable technical assets, white papers, and demo environments tailored to enterprise security and observability use cases.\nMinimum Qualifications\n5-7 years of experience in Pre-Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Technical Consulting.\nUnderstanding of modern security frameworks (SIEM, SOAR, threat detection) and/or observability principles (APM, infrastructure monitoring, digital experience monitoring).\nAbility to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for executive-level stakeholders.\nExperience working with large-scale data platforms or log management solutions\nCommunication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead technical workshops and whiteboard sessions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with cloud-native monitoring and security platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).\nSplunk certification or equivalent platform expertise is highly preferred.\nKnowledge of modern application architectures, including AI stacks, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes.\nExperience in data modeling, scripting (Python, PowerShell, or Bash), and API integration.\nUnderstanding of cybersecurity frameworks and compliance standards relevant to enterprise IT.\nPrevious experience working within a global manufacturing organization or a specialized software provider serving the manufacturing industry.\nAbility to travel to customer sites to conduct on-site assessments and strategic planning sessions.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $209,100.00 to $275,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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