Senior Professional Services Consultant - Canberra

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, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and, most importantly, to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Our Splunk Family in Australia/ New Zealand are a results-focused and collaborative bunch spanning functions across sales, customer success, support, marketing and G&A functions. We love to work as a team, celebrate success and learn from our losses. We have a great team culture with weekly team breakfasts, cocktail hour Fridays, end-of-quarter celebrations, volunteering activities and a culture based on respect, transparency, and always doing the right thing!

Are you looking to make an impact?

The work you do will directly influence the experience of our customers. As a Senior Professional Services Consultant, you will create solutions to ensure enterprise deployments make a deep impact across the organisations you support. You'll solve our customers' most ambitious problems, including the ones they didn't know existed. Are you up for the challenge?

What will you be doing?

• Drive complex deployments of Splunk while working side by side with the customers to resolve their unique problems.
• Work with a team of incredibly hardworking and dedicated peers, all the way from the Field, Sales Engineering and Customer Support.
• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing our talent through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation.
• The ability to empower customers to take on the next wave of questions on their own.
• A chance to share standard methodologies and create innovative solutions to push user adoption and improve the value of Splunk.
• Good corporate citizen – two-way flow of relevant and timely information; work as a team for the most efficient use and deployment of resources.
• A stable, respectful and collaborative work environment.
  
  

That sounds great - what experience do you need?

Splunkers are self-motivated and have an unbridled thirst to learn exciting technologies and thrive in a constantly evolving environment. You will be adept at mastering new technologies and come from a variety of business, analytic and technology backgrounds.

• BA/BS preferred in computer science, computer engineering, finance or mathematics or equivalent work experience
• PV (Positive Vetting Clearance) security clearance
• Recent experience in technical consulting or big data analytics.
• Passion for Splunk products and the solutions we bring to our customers.
• You can collaborate across the entire Splunk organization to bring access to product and technical teams, get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation collected from customer input.
• Experience with both the Unix and Windows operating systems; comfortable with the command line interface.
• Working knowledge or recent experience with scripting languages (bash), application development (java, python. NET), databases and analytical tools.
• Ability to stop, collaborate and listen to technical and non-technical consumers, from IT administrators to executive-level partners.
• Demonstrable understanding of common enterprise applications (mainly in the areas of security and finance).
• Not required, but a plus: statistical and analytical modeling.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% within Australia
• A person who flourishes in a dynamic, fast-growing environment while working independently and remotely from other members of your team and corporate.
• Relevant software industry experience in any of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, security, and/or analytics