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Solutions Architect – Splunk
Location
Texas
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$130.6K - $182.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Solutions Architect – Splunk
Cisco
• Partner with product, marketing, specialist, technical sales, and customer success teams to ideate and develop new strategic initiatives. • Collaborate with account teams to develop strategies that effectively position the Splunk portfolio. • Leverage AI-powered tools and generative methodologies to build, automate, and scale high-impact technical content assets. • Provide content provisioning automation for the demo platform. • Develop compelling, external-facing presentations that clearly articulate the value proposition of Splunk’s portfolio. • Lead internal webinars and training sessions to up-level the technical proficiency of account teams. • Author technical blog posts detailing recent engagements, innovations, or industry developments. • Author code to build and maintain integrations with key Cloud-relevant technologies. • Provide strategic guidance to product teams, proactively identifying issues and collaborating on solutions. • Develop and facilitate deep-dive, hands-on workshops.
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of work experience in Cloud, Observability or closely related fields.
- Deep understanding of current technologies and trends in cloud, app development and microservices architecture deployment methodologies.
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in Cloud Technologies, Microservices Architectures, Multi-cloud, Hybrid, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Workloads, Cloud Native Technologies, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, App Development, Mobile, and Edge Computing.
- Previous experience as a practitioner in a specific discipline in either a research, consulting or operations role is required.
- Demonstrable experience delivering technology evangelism and enablement.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Self-motivated problem solver in highly complex environments.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s, Puppet, Chef, Terraform or Ansible.
- Hands-on experience in application development in at least one framework.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related discipline or equivalent work experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time accrued
- Flexible vacation time off for exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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