The Technical Success Engineer at Splunk is a critical team member responsible for the technical health of our customers. You will bring your deep product knowledge to advise customers on their platform health, providing guidance on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud architectures and technical best practices to ensure customers remain successful and realize the full value of their investment in Splunk. As a Splunk Technical Success Engineer, you will support our customers on their adoption journey with product support, advisory and management of customer escalations.
Responsibilities :
- Act as point of contact for technical health issues and escalation management for enterprise customers.
- Deliver customer onboarding guidance, enablement planning, administration and management workshops.
- Provide guidance, planning and recommendations for the overall technical health of a customer's Splunk environment.
- Monitor the overall health of customer environments considering cases, critical issues, outages and ongoing projects, and conduct diagnostic health checks as needed.
- Advocate internally for customers to facilitate the resolution of customer issues through coordination of efforts among Splunk’s internal organizations (technical support, services, sales, product development, product management, and executive leadership teams)
- Proactively analyze customer issues and interactions to identify training and additional services needs, engage internal teams for delivery
- Participate in sales QBRs with customers (onsite and virtually) to review service levels, usage metrics and customer environment performance.
- Work with the relevant technical teams to proactively handle customer escalations and configurations, and recommend customer environment upgrades and add-ons, ensuring upgrade readiness and new feature awareness
- Assess all cloud overages and leverage services for workload optimization solutions
- Proactively identify customer environment impacts related to bugs or new release build and track scheduled maintenance windows and communicate effectively between teams
- Understand, document and communicate the customer’s needs to the Account Team
- Keep the customer informed of key information that may be critical to their success (e.g. product roadmaps, new product releases, customer events, or organizational changes)
Requirements :
Knowledge of software development process and technical environmentsExperienced with customer escalations, account management and project managementPassionately focused on customer service and successStrong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiencesAbility to communicate effectively with individual contributors to senior leadersWork independently and as part of a teamExperience with IT operations and technical infrastructureWorking knowledge of Splunk Core Platform highly desirableTravel up to 30% may be requiredRequired Technical and Professional Expertise
5+ years’ experience in technical support, professional services, systems administration / engineering or related5+ years’ experience managing strategic / top accounts in the technology sector5+ years’ experience in enterprise customer facing roleProject management experienceFluent in German & English, both written & spokenBA / BS technical degree, or equivalent work experienceWorking knowledge of Splunk Core platformWilling to pursue Splunk Architect CertificationFamiliarity with all Splunk related products (preferred)