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# Industry Solutions Engineer, Splunk - Energy and Utilities

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $239,200.0 - $314,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Information Technology Operations, Enterprise Software Applications, Splunk, Cisco
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18865355/Industry-Solutions-Engineer-Splunk-Energy-Utilities-Illinois-Chicago

## About the Role

* 5+ years in solutions engineering, technical consulting, or pre-sales in Energy, Utility, and OT technologies.
 * Executive presence and technical credibility with energy and utility technology and business leaders, including CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, infrastructure and application leaders, digital and IT operations leaders, and other executives.
 * Force-multiplier mindset with AMER Solution Engineers.
 * Willingness to travel to support customer engagement and industry events.
 * Track record of rolling out a Go-To-Market for Energy and Utilities.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Familiarity with energy and utility IT and OT systems.
 * Industry interoperability, integration and data exchange, including experience with standards and technologies such as NERC CIP, Multispeak, etc.
 * Energy and Utility applications and ancillary systems
 * Energy and Utility business technology.
 * Cyber and operational risk: Understanding of identity, access, privacy, third party risk, device visibility, network context and security telemetry across multiple environments.

## Description

Join a team of Splunk Solutions Engineers! The Energy and Utilities Industry Solutions Engineer leads targeted, business-outcomes. Accelerates GTM by developing repeatable use cases and the technical assets - demos, architectures, talk tracks, and POV kits - that Solution Engineering can leverage on strategic deals. Partner with account teams to connect Splunk and Cisco capabilities to operational and security outcomes.
Your Impact

This is a high-visibility, individual-contributor role reporting into the Industry Solutions Engineering organization, working closely with core Solutions Engineering, industry go-to-market leadership, and product teams.

 * Solution Domain Expert: Serve as the lead authority on energy and utilities to drive tangible customer use cases covering security, privacy, compliance, operational resiliency, and operational technology.
 * Drive Growth: Partner with Regional Sales Managers, AMER Solutions Engineers and Solution Architects on energy and utility deals to provide deep domain and technical credibility in customer-facing meetings, workshops, and executive briefings.
 * Business Outcome Solutioning: Translate CISO, CIO, CMO, COO, and CFO priorities into success criteria, POV delivery, and executive summaries.
 * GTM Acceleration: Collaborate with Energy and Utility Industry Advisor on driving Splunk's vision and value proposition in the marketplace
 * Scale & Standardize GTM Assets: Build and maintain a Standard Outcome based blueprint to develop a Solutions Engineer Kit containing (discovery guide, Energy and Utility use cases, demo script, executive conversation guide, reference architecture, data source mapping, competitive battle cards, etc)
 * Solution Evangelization: Build energy and utility customized demos assets across security, privacy, compliance, operational resiliency, and operational technology.
 * Product Influence: Act as the voice of the energy and utility vertical and provide feedback to product management, and influence product roadmap based on customer and industry trends.
 * Coaching & Enablement: Coach AMER Solutions Engineers on energy and utility architecture, buyer mapping, and business-case selling.
 * Drive Market Place Mindshare: Represent Splunk at Energy and Utility focused industry events and user groups
 * Strategic Leadership: Engage specialists, Industry Advisors, Solution Architects, and partners to land credible, compliant stories.
 * Foster Team Success: Mentor core account Solutions Engineers on Energy and Utility domain knowledge to scale industry expertise across the broader Solutions Engineering organization.