Pre-Sales Cloud Solutions Architects are domain experts on the Splunk Platform, cloud service providers (CSPs), and operationalizing data from cloud services and adjacent technologies. As one of Splunk’s senior-most technical pre-sales resources, you will be a key participant in securing the technical win on strategic and complex opportunities. In this role, you’ll be joining a pre-sales overlay team of technical experts who leverage their diverse technical backgrounds to help our customers and prospects in the Middle East & Emerging regions as well as other EMEA Markets to design Splunk solutions at scale. The Solution Architect team is a distributed, remote team of experts residing across different time zones, languages, and locations. You will have the opportunity to cover a wide range of engagements. Some examples include aligning new use-cases to product roadmaps, designing future-state architectures, provide advanced hands-on skills when required as well as presenting to Senior Level audiences in many of EMEA’s large strategic enterprises, in a wide range of industries. What you’ll do

• Provide senior, technical sales leadership for Splunk opportunities
• Operate as a self-starter who is driven by an intense desire to learn, grow, teach & win
• Influence product capabilities and direction based on crosscutting customer challenges and needs
• Guide customers through best practices and architectures for complex technology challenges
• Act as an internal technical expert, fielding questions related to Splunk Platform & Splunk Cloud services, as well as cloud services provided by Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services
• Develop and deliver technical content for internal and external audiences to advance sales stages and/or provide high-impact marketing events
• Maintain and extend personal expertise related to evolving and newly emerging technologies underpinning the latest industry trends and prototype solutions for integration with Splunk

What you’ve done

• 7+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales or professional services role
• 3+ year of experience working with a CSP IaaS and PaaS offerings
• Possess deep knowledge and expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform service, certifications a plus
• Experience operationalizing logs and metrics
• Experience presenting technical content to a range of customers from admins to CxOs

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 25% (when/where public health conditions allow due to COVID-19)

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Location: Dubai UAE (Primary) Israel Turkey Poland