Senior Sales Engineer
Senior Sales Engineer
Embrace your inner geek within a team of incredible technologists at Splunk!
We are looking for our newest Sales Engineer for the Splunk family in New Zealand. This person will help our enterprise customers harness the full value of our platform. You will have a passion for driving growth and adoption with our customers by demonstrating Splunk's ability to bring data to everything.
Responsibilities: I want to (and can) do that
- Demonstrate & evangelize Splunk products and services to customers on site, remotely via webinar sessions, and at field events such as conferences and trade shows.
- Lead or participate in discovery calls/conversations with prospects (autonomously or in collaboration with your sales counterpart) to discover and/or validate opportunities.
- Establish and develop positive relationships throughout the sales cycle & beyond with our valued customers & partners
- Visit prospects and customers/partners, and engage in onsite customer work in the form of ‘Proof of Value/Concept’ when required.
- Answer complex technical inquiries and address customer concerns to drive successful outcomes.
Requirements: I have done (and can) do that
- Understand each customers' business, operations and industry including the strategic business and technology goals.
- Demonstrate how Splunk’s solutions can provide capabilities and benefits to address the client’s business needs.
- Ability to be organised and analytical as well as creative and adaptive
- Developing & maintaining strong relationships with customers & partners as a trusted advisor
- Desire to work for a dynamic technical organisation with a fast-growing customer base.
- Work with peers and cross functional teams to develop and continually improve working practices and processes
- Work with complex application environments, with the ability to understand relevant sources of machine data, such as performance logs, application logs, audit logs, security data sources, network-centric data, etc
- Experience & hands-on skills with observability solutions around microservices and serverless architectures, for example Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless functions, etc.. would be an advantage
- Experience and hands-on skills with scripting languages such as Python and Perl, as well as with regular expression (RegEx) pattern matching would be an advantage
- Familiar with other open source technologies, search engine technologies and query languages.
- 2+ years of Pre-sales experience working for an Enterprise Vendor is preferred
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which you are applying.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
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