Splunk - Washington, DC

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Remote - Washington, DC
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Senior Technical Success Engineer at Splunk plays a crucial role in ensuring the technical health and success of our enterprise customers. This position is designed for individuals who possess extensive knowledge of Splunk products and are adept at providing guidance on best practices for both Splunk Cloud and Enterprise deployments. The Technical Success Engineer is not only responsible for assisting customers in their adoption journey but also for offering product support, advisory services, and managing critical issues that may arise. By fulfilling these responsibilities, the Technical Success Engineer helps customers maximize the value of their Splunk investment while ensuring that their platform operates efficiently and effectively. In this role, you will act as a primary point of contact for technical health issues and partner concern management for enterprise customers. You will provide mentorship, planning, and recommendations to enhance a customer's overall technical health. This includes supervising the health of customer environments, which encompasses managing cases, urgent issues, outages, ongoing projects, potential bugs, and performing diagnostic health checks as necessary. You will advocate for customers internally, facilitating the resolution of issues through coordination with various internal teams, including technical support, services, sales, product development, and executive leadership. Your responsibilities will also involve proactively addressing customers' critical issues, recommending environment upgrades or add-ons, and ensuring readiness for upgrades. You will need to communicate customer needs effectively to fellow account team members and Splunk leadership, keeping customers informed of key information essential to their success, such as product roadmaps, new releases, and special events. Additionally, you will analyze customer issues and product usage to recommend further education and services, engage with internal teams for delivery, and assess cloud overages for workload optimization. Participation in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with customers to review service levels and performance metrics will also be part of your duties. Lastly, you will deliver customer onboarding mentorship and management workshops to ensure a smooth transition and effective use of Splunk products.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a point of contact for technical health issues and partner concern management for enterprise customers.
  • Provide mentorship, planning, and recommendations for a customer's overall technical health.
  • Supervise the overall health of customer environments, including 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.
  • Work with relevant teams to proactively handle customers' critical issues, recommend environment upgrades or add-ons, and ensure upgrade readiness.
  • Detail, communicate, and understand customer needs to relay them to account team members and Splunk Leadership.
  • Keep the customer advised of key information essential to their success, such as product roadmaps and new product releases.
  • Proactively analyze customer issues, interactions, and product usage to recommend education and additional services needed.
  • Assess cloud overages and leverage appropriate services for workload optimization.
  • Participate in QBRs with customers to review service levels, usage metrics, and customer environment performance.
  • Deliver customer onboarding mentorship, enablement planning, administration, and management workshops.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% as required.
  • Splunk Architect Certification achieved within 6 months of start.
  • Proficient in English.

Nice-to-haves

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan and match
  • Paid time off
  • Incentive compensation
  • Equity or long-term cash awards
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