12 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Shape security transformation strategies for high-value customers across SIEM, threat detection, and AI-driven security operations.
- Advise CISOs and senior technical decision-makers and translate business and security requirements into enterprise-grade architectures.
- Lead competitive displacement campaigns and complex, multi-stakeholder technical sales engagements.
- Mobilize resources across Cisco and Splunk to support strategic customer wins.
- Mentor and upskill the APJC technical field through workshops, reference architectures, and repeatable technical sales motions.
- Represent APJC customer needs to global product and engineering teams through market, competitive, and regional insights.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 6+ years, PhD with 3+ years, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience in cybersecurity, security operations, security architecture, or technical pre-sales and consulting.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise SIEM, threat detection, response, and modern security architecture.
- Experience engaging senior technical leaders and translating complex business and security requirements into enterprise solutions.
- Experience leading complex technical sales engagements across diverse geographic and cultural environments.
- Expertise with enterprise security and the broader Cisco security portfolio is preferred.
- Understanding of SOC transformation, detection engineering, threat hunting, security automation, agentic security architectures, SIEM, XDR, and security data platforms is preferred.
- Experience creating technical enablement materials, reference designs, or scalable technical assets is preferred.
- Strong communication skills and experience in regional or APJC-wide technical leadership are preferred.
Tech Stack
Splunk
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.