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Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Customer Success Technical Leader - Technical Account Manager

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementUpdated on Nov 9
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Fluent Japanese.
  • At least 5 years of experience designing, configuring, implementing, and administering security solutions or Splunk.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with databases.
  • Ability to manage assigned tickets and area-aligned priorities.
  • Ability to establish technical credibility with internal and customer contacts and adapt approach to the audience.
  • Ability to engage in escalation management and resolve conflicts.
  • Ability to influence peers, leadership, and customers, and to negotiate in complex or distributed IT environments and accounts.
  • Ability to understand customer business strategies, objectives, challenges, success criteria, and training needs, and analyze trends that may affect long-term goals.
  • Ability to identify, define, and lead improvement priorities and take on mentorship roles as assigned by management.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, active listening, and objective consideration of others’ opinions.
  • Strong customer-facing skills to build confidence and guide customers toward resolution.
  • Ability to balance multiple account teams, customers, and competing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Develop expertise in Splunk security license products, including Enterprise Security, User Behavior Analytics, and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response.
  • Align to a specific area and strategically support Customer Success Executive, Technical Success Engineer, Solution Engineer, and Solution Architect activities.
  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success roles to help area-aligned customers realize value.
  • Deliver onboarding and enablement workshops, provide prescriptive guidance, and achieve onboarding milestones.
  • Audit product usage, indexes, data models, assets and identities, dashboards, correlation searches, notable events, and frameworks; remediate identified issues.
  • Plan and develop security detections and analytics, identify MITRE ATT&CK coverage gaps, integrate and normalize data, drive Common Information Model compliance, and write custom Search Processing Language.
  • Activate features, frameworks, and products such as risk-based alerting, threat intelligence, threat hunting, UBA/UEBA, and SOAR/automation.
  • Proactively engage Customer Success Executives and Solution Architects on security adoption and use-case opportunities.
  • Proactively engage Technical Success Engineers on health-related work involving security products.
  • Scope effort and develop technical action plans based on assessments of technical situations.
  • Engage area-aligned Customer Success and Solution Engineering management to align priorities and address risk accounts and area themes.
  • Provide strategic, case-based assistance for up to 90 days, delivering technical advice on enterprise architecture, implementation, configuration, and optimization in complex environments for Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA/UEBA, and/or SOAR.
  • Identify and resolve organizations’ complex technical challenges before they affect customers.
  • Guide account team members and customers on optimal use of Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA/UEBA, and/or SOAR, and recommend improvements to customer technical health.
  • Collaborate with internal resources and customer-facing teams to manage customer needs.
  • Research across various resources to answer questions and solve complex technical problems.
  • Conduct consultative conversations with decision-makers to diagnose business issues and their potential value, adjust solution requirements based on discovery and assessment, and recommend ways to accelerate initiatives, optimize cost, and maximize performance.
  • Gain agreement with account team members and customer decision-makers on the tangible value of proposed solutions.
  • Contribute to practice key performance indicators through process and collateral improvements, tool development, and implementation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Exposure to security automation (SOAR) or behavioral analytics (UEBA).
  • Practical knowledge of common security frameworks such as NIST and CIS, or compliance standards.
  • Basic familiarity with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience in threat hunting, digital forensics, or Security Operations Center workflows.
  • Relevant security certifications or Splunk accreditations.

About the Company

Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Cisco makes the switches and routers that connect offices, data centers, and cloud services, and it also sells cybersecurity tools and Webex video meetings to businesses and governments. It was one of the first companies to sell routers that let different kinds of computer networks exchange data, and in 2000 it briefly became the world's most valuable company. Customers run its network gear, from Wi-Fi access points to AI data center systems, with Cisco software that sets up and secures the network, while its Splunk unit searches computer logs to catch outages and attacks. Cisco earns money from hardware sales, software subscriptions, and support contracts. It was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1984

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