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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. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

The Technical Success Engineer plays a vital role at Splunk and is responsible for ensuring the technical health of our customers! This position requires extensive knowledge of Splunk products to provide guidance on standard processes for Splunk Cloud and Enterprise deployments. The Technical Success Engineer also assists customers in their journey by offering product support, advisory services, and handling critical issues. By fulfilling these responsibilities, this role helps customers improve the value of their Splunk investment while ensuring that their platform is operating efficiently!

Meet the Team (Optional)

Are you someone who puts customers at the center of everything you do? Our Customer Success and Experience team empowers customers with the knowledge, expertise and resources to achieve their goals with Splunk to build long-term success and loyalty. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk’s customer success leaders at splunk.com/careers/customer-success (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/careers/customer-success-and-experience.html) .

What you'll get to do

• Act as a point of contact for technical health issues and partner with the escalation management team for enterprise customers.

• Provide mentorship, planning, and recommendations for a customer’s overall technical health.

• Supervise the overall health of customer environments, which include cases, urgent issues, outages, ongoing projects, possible bugs, and performance of diagnostic health checks as needed.

• Advocate internally for customers to facilitate the resolution of issues through coordination of Splunk’s internal organizations (technical support, services, sales, product development/management, and executive leadership)

• Work with relevant teams to proactively handle customers' critical issues, recommend environment upgrades or add-ons, upgrade readiness, new feature awareness, and maintenance windows.

• Be able to detail, communicate, and understand customer needs, so they can be clearly relayed to fellow account team members and Splunk Leadership.

• Keep the customer advised of key information that may be critical to their success (e.g. product roadmaps, new product releases, special customer events, or organizational changes)

• Proactively analyze customer issues, interactions, and product usage to recommend education and additional services needed then engage with internal teams for delivery.

• Assess cloud overages and leverage appropriate services for workload optimization.

• Participate in QBRs with customers (onsite and virtually) to review service levels, usage metrics and customer environment performance.

• Deliver customer onboarding mentorship, enablement planning, administration, and management workshops.

Must-have Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in technical support, professional services, systems administration/engineering or related experience.

• 5+ years experience building customer relationships and handling enterprise accounts.

• Experienced with customer issues, account/project management, IT Operations, and technical infrastructure.

• Familiarity with all Splunk-related products

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences ranging from individual contributors to senior leaders.

• Work independently and as part of a team

• Travel up to 30% may be required.

• Splunk Architect Certification achieved within 6 months of start

• Proficient in English

Nice-to-have Qualifications

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

• BA/BS technical degree

• Knowledge of software development process and technical environments

• Solid understanding of Splunk Core Platform

• Other industry certifications from AWS, Google, and Azure

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.