# Strategy & Planning Manager

The application window is expected to close on: 11/07/2026Partner Strategy Manager - Splunk CX Technical Partner Strategy Meet the Team 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. Your Impact You will help craft Cisco's CX partner strategy with a focus on Splunk Observability, collaborating closely with senior leaders to scale partner programs that drive global growth for Cisco. As a Technical Partner Strategy Manager, you will: Act as the consultative technical authority on Observability Cloud and OpenTelemetry (OTel) for Partner CX Practice Leads and Principal Architects. Whiteboard, review, and advise on complex multi-cloud monitoring architectures (APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Log/Digital Experience/Synthetic Monitoring) delivered by partner technical teams. Guide partners on Kubernetes instrumentation standards, distributed tracing methodologies,

- **Id**: 3678562
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-strategy-planning-manager-8>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, Dallas, United States, Atlanta, United States, Allen, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:31:54Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T22:31:54Z
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7622
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.475
- **Repost share**: 0.092
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 198500
- **Max**: 324100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 324100

## Technologies

- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **New Relic** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T12:11:27Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T22:31:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 324100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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