Observability Solutions Architect - Splunk

Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Remote Type: Onsite Only

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Meet the Team

Join our team as an Observability Solutions Architect and play a key role in helping customers make data-driven decisions. You’ll lead the technical evaluation stage of the sales process, acting as a trusted advisor to customers, partners, and sales teams while representing Splunk’s observability solutions.

Your Impact

• Present and position Splunk solutions through customer meetings, demos, webinars, and industry events.

• Discover customer needs and design tailored technical solutions aligned to business goals.

• Lead technical evaluations, PoCs/PoVs, and guide customers through solution validation.

• Respond to RFPs/RFIs and partner with sales to deliver customer-centric proposals.

• Continuously learn and adapt new tools and best practices.

• Collaborate with marketing and cross-functional teams to deliver successful outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in presales or technical sales within a software vendor environment.

• Strong customer discovery skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Solid experience supporting technical evaluations, demos, and proof-of-value engagements.

• Strong background in crafting technical responses to RFIs/RFPs, showcasing reliability and technical acuity.

• Technical knowledge of observability/APM solutions and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure); familiarity with SAP.

Preferred Qualifications

• Growth mindset with ability to learn new technologies in fast-changing environments.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to work independently.

• Team-oriented mindset and strong collaboration with sales and engineering partners.

• Confident presenter with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Willingness to travel and engage customers across industries and regions.

Technical Literacy

Core Technical Minimum Qualifications

• Strong foundation in observability (MELT), OpenTelemetry, and APM concepts.

• Working knowledge of APM internals and runtime instrumentation (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python).

• Deep understanding of cloud-native and Kubernetes-based architectures and monitoring.

• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and common failure patterns.

• Solid understanding of SAP architectures (ECC, S/4HANA), transaction monitoring, and SAP to non-SAP integrations.

Preferred Technical Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale, multi-region observability platforms.

• Exposure to AI/ML use cases in observability (anomaly detection, alert noise reduction).

• Familiarity with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response processes.

• Knowledge of eBPF or zero-instrumentation monitoring approaches.

• Contributions to open source, technical publications, or relevant certifications (Otel, cloud, SAP).

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