Solutions Engineer at Splunk in Johannesburg – Apply Now!

📍 Location: Gauteng, South Africa (Hybrid)
🆔 Job ID: 1451752
🏢 Company: Splunk (A Cisco Company)
⏱️ Type: Full-time

About Splunk

Splunk is committed to building a safer and more resilient digital world. As the leading platform for security and observability, Splunk helps enterprises protect their digital ecosystems, monitor performance, and make informed decisions powered by data.

While the technology is world-class, Splunk’s true advantage is its people. Becoming a “Splunker” means joining a culture built on authenticity, inclusiveness, curiosity, and creativity. Here, your unique experiences matter — every “million data points” that make you who you are.

This role offers a chance to join a company reshaping how organisations use information to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and scale with confidence.

Role Overview

As a Solutions Engineer, you will lead the technical components of the sales cycle for South African enterprise customers. Your mission is to understand customer challenges, position Splunk’s value, demonstrate capabilities, and guide organisations toward a successful technical win.

This is a strategic, client-facing role requiring technical depth, strong communication, solution positioning, and relationship-building across diverse enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Splunk’s products, solutions, and platform capabilities through onsite sessions, remote demos, webinars, and industry events.

• Maintain and strengthen technical relationships across all stages of the sales cycle.

• Respond to technical and functional components of RFIs and RFPs.

• Travel up to 50% to support customer engagements and onsite discovery.

• Collaborate with sales teams to execute strategy, overcome technical barriers, and close opportunities.

• Diagnose customer pain points and translate them into value-driven solutions.

• Provide clear written communication in emails, reports, proposals, and technical documentation.

• Present Splunk’s capabilities to both technical and business audiences with confidence and clarity.

• Address objections, answer advanced technical questions, and drive discussions to successful outcomes.

• Work with pre-sales leadership to improve processes, methodologies, and technical playbooks.

• Support marketing initiatives, events, and pipeline-generation activities by representing Splunk as a technical expert.

• Build customer champions by helping them understand Splunk’s ability to solve critical security, observability, and resilience challenges.

Who You Are

• Curious and eager to understand the “why” behind technical and business challenges.

• Skilled at tracking your position in the sales cycle and driving momentum.

• Technically strong with current knowledge of modern enterprise technologies.

• Excellent storyteller who can demonstrate value at all levels of an organisation.

• Energised by meeting new people and building long-term relationships.

• Confident, but grounded and collaborative.

• Business-savvy with an understanding of organisational structures and decision-making.

• Growth-oriented and committed to continuous upskilling.

• Team-focused and motivated by collective wins.

• Able to balance performance excellence with a sense of fun and positivity.

Technical Requirements

• Strong understanding of cloud computing models, migrations, architectures, and born-in-the-cloud environments.

• Cloud certification required (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience in Security, SecOps, or DevOps environments.

• Knowledge of modern and traditional architecture frameworks.

• Ability to script or code using Python, Bash, Ruby, or similar tools.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent work experience.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP or ITIL are beneficial.

• Ability to travel 50% across South Africa.

Why Cisco? (Splunk is now a Cisco Company)

Cisco is redefining how organisations connect, secure, and scale in the AI era. With four decades of fearless innovation, Cisco provides unmatched technology, a global network of experts, and limitless opportunities for growth.

At Cisco, you will work in a collaborative environment where impact is global and innovation is constant. Your contribution fuels transformation and helps shape the future of digital business.

CV Tips for a Solutions Engineer Role

• Highlight experience in pre-sales, technical demonstrations, and customer engagement.

• List cloud certifications clearly and prominently.

• Showcase examples where you influenced a technical win or helped close a deal.

• Demonstrate your ability to translate business pain points into technical solutions.

• Include your scripting capabilities and any automation experience.

• Add measurable achievements (e.g., “accelerated sales cycle by 30% through improved demo frameworks”).

• Emphasize communication, presentation, and stakeholder-engagement strengths.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair and unbiased consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic status, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.