Splunk MENA
Senior Solutions Engineer
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
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Job expiry date: 02/06/2025
Job overview
Date posted
18/04/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
02/06/2025
Job description
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, weāre committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each otherās success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey! Saudi Arabia Based role.
Required skills
presales consulting
presentation delivery
proof of concept management
big data
application performance management
security
business intelligence
web analytics
operational intelligence
ROI analysis
log management
data analysis
UNIX
Linux
Windows
XML
HTML 5.0
JavaScript
Java
.NET
Ruby
Key responsibilities
- Write and deliver excellent presentations; both business focused and technical presentations.
- Demonstrate Splunk solutions to prospects, both onsite and remotely (via Webinars).
- Attend and demonstrate Splunk solutions at field events, such as conferences and trade shows.
- Respond to the functional and technical elements of tender documents, such as RFIs/RFPs.
- Deliver and manage Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements to a success outcome.
- Answer complex technical and competitive questions plus address customer concerns to a successful outcome.
- Develop relevant presales material, e.g. business cases/ROI, competitive insight documents, etc to persuade clients of the superior value, benefits and capabilities of Splunkās solutions.
- Work closely with the presales team and presales management to develop and continually improve working practices, best practices, presales processes, e.g. POC planning, etc.
Experience & skills
- Domain knowledge and experience in any of the following areas: Big Data (from a data management perspective), Application Performance Management, Security, Business Intelligence/Web Analytics, Operational Intelligence.
- Knowledgeable understanding of the financial services, insurance, telecommunications and/or retails markets, with a proven track record of selling into Enterprise organisations.
- Ability to develop a strong understanding of each target clientās business, operations and industry trends, including understanding the strategic business and technology goals.
- Understand the clientās buying process.
- Understands how Splunkās solutions can provide capabilities and benefits in order to address the clientās business needs.
- Ability to participate in account planning and planning meetings to identify new and follow up solution, services and education opportunities.
- Ability to develop and articulate business value/ROI case studies.
- Experience working 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.
- Detailed understanding and knowledge in the area of Log Management and analysis would also be beneficial.
- Experience and strong hands-on skills with UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX), Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Web development skills, including XML, HTML 5.0, JavaScript, Java, .NET, Ruby, etc would be an advantage.
- 5+ years of Presales experience working for Enterprise Software Vendor.
- In depth knowledge of Saudi Arabia customers.
- A University degree or similar (preferably in computer science, software engineering or a similar field).
- Proactive and able to be manage activities in a self-sufficient manner.
- Strong communication skills, including excellent verbal and written English language skills.
- Strong knowledge of the sales process.
- Self-motivated with a proven track record in technical software sales and knowledge of technology.
- Ability to be organised and analytical, and must be able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
- Comfortable working for a dynamic, technical organisation with a rapidly expanding customer base.
- Resilience and resourcefulness when solving complex problems.
- Excellent team skills.
- Winning attitude.
