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 is Primarily provides high level pre-sales technical support for the development of sales opportunities across France.

As a Splunk Account Solutions Engineer your primary responsibilities will be to:
• Work in collaboration with your peers and 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

We are looking for an individual who is based in Paris.
• 5+ years of presales or solutions engineering experience with an enterprise software vendor.
• Experience within within Strategic / Enterprise Accounts through their professional career as a vendor. Experience can range from technical experience (Infrastructure monitoring, RCA, …) to functional (Service Management, End to end monitoring and Security.
• 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 activities in a self-sufficient manner.
• Strong communication, including excellent verbal and written skills in French and in English.
• 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.
• Excellent team skills.

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.

Why Cisco?

At 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.

Fueled 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.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.