Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Cloud SIEM and observability platforms sit at the center of modern SaaS operations, where customers expect real time detection, reliable telemetry, and clear compliance signals across cloud and hybrid estates. This Technical Account Engineer II role is featured because it operates at that intersection of product, security outcomes, and day to day usage patterns, translating a complex analytics platform into measurable operational value for customers.
For a SaaS career, the long term advantage is breadth with depth. The work builds fluency in adoption mechanics that are common across subscription businesses: health metrics, renewal risk signals, enablement, and feedback loops into roadmap discussions. It also strengthens the ability to move between practitioner level troubleshooting and executive level QBR narratives, a transferable skill set for Customer Success engineering, solutions architecture, and platform specialist paths in security and observability SaaS.
The role tends to suit professionals who enjoy hands on investigation and structured customer engagement in parallel, often across multiple accounts. It aligns with someone comfortable navigating ambiguity, using data to infer usage patterns, and collaborating tightly with sales and product counterparts without losing technical credibility. It is a solid fit for those who want customer proximity while staying close to cloud, DevSecOps, and monitoring toolchains.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Technical Account Engineer II
Sumo Logic's Cloud SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platform provides comprehensive security visibility and analytics for modern cloud and hybrid environments. Leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, our Cloud SIEM delivers real-time threat detection, incident response, and compliance management. Designed for scalability and efficiency, it seamlessly integrates with a wide range of security tools and data sources, enabling organizations to effectively manage and mitigate security risks while optimizing their security operations. Sumo Logic's Cloud SIEM empowers security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and maintain robust security postures.
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Account Manager. As a trusted customer advisor, Technical Account Manager not only help our customers understand best practices to maximize Sumo Logic's value, drive customer ROI and also delve deep into the technical nuances of our platform. You'll be hands-on, assisting customers in navigating the complexities of Sumo Logic and leading strategic growth through robust relationships with users and executives in partnership with the Sumo Logic account team. Your expertise in advanced training, complex problem-solving, and enabling technology adoption will be crucial. We support customers across various verticals with specialized needs in information security, DevSecOps, and observability and monitoring.
This role offers the excitement of joining Sumo's team, which is renowned for tackling our customers' most intricate security and operational challenges. As a TAM, you'll have visibility up to the CEO level and engage with our executive team on strategic initiatives.
Travel Requirements
- Flexible, but generally once or twice a quarter (10-25%)
- Customer Visits
- Corporate Visits for Training, mandatory meetings, etc.
Responsibilities
- Advanced Technical Expertise: Hands-on keyboard experience and consultative skills.
- Strategic Adoption Drive: Facilitate training on advanced features and practices, aligning with the customer's specific usage of Sumo Logic.
- Customized Success Planning: Work closely with customers to understand their unique requirements and challenges, ensuring alignment with their expected business outcomes through a hands-on, consultative approach to build their adoption plan, then help them to achieve it and track progress. You’ll keep an eye out for additional opportunities and work to expand the plan as they progress to maximize the value they get from SUMO Logic.
- Risk Mitigation and Planning: Ability to identify financial and adoption risks within an account and pull the team together to create a thorough plan to turn risky situations into an advocacy scenario.
- Growth Strategy Development: Collaborate with the account team to formulate and implement strategies that balance customer needs with Sumo Logic’s business growth.
- Proactive Monitoring and Support: Vigilantly monitor customer KPIs, proactively address deployment issues, and drive product roadmap suggestions from customer feedback.
- Executive Engagement: Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews and monthly health check calls, maintaining a proactive, strategic presence in the account team.
- Monitor and report on the overall well-being of customers, tracking essential health and usage indicators to reduce or eliminate churn risk
- Data Analysis: Ability to look at data and infer usage patterns
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Extensive SaaS Experience: Proven track record in a technical role managing multiple customer accounts, preferably with a background in DevOps Engineering, SOC analysis, or similar technical positions.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Passionate about customer satisfaction and problem-solving.
- Relationship Management: Demonstrated ability in managing relationships across various levels, from technical practitioners to executives.
- Communication Excellence: Professional and clear communication skills, adept in both executive meetings and technical workshops.
- Ambiguity Navigation: Ability to work with uncertainty and proactively seek necessary support.
- Account Management Prowess: Demonstrable skills in managing multiple Accounts with a keen eye for detail.
- Familiar with Cyber Security frameworks and their applications in the secure DevOps Lifecycle
- Curiosity to learn about the customer base and curiosity to continue learning
Desired Qualifications and Skills
- Monitoring Platform Experience: Proficiency in Sumo Logic or similar platforms (e.g., Splunk, Data Dog, Elastic, New Relic, Appdynamics, VMWare Tanzu).
- Cloud Services Knowledge: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud services.
- Query Language Proficiency: SQL or similar query language skills.
- Security and Operations Background: Experience in monitoring and alerting in security, operations, or SecDevOps settings.
- Advanced Technologies: Kubernetes expertise (including HELM) and data analytics knowledge are highly advantageous.
- OSS skills in Otel, Prometheus, and Falco are a plus
- Sumo Logic experience is a big plus but not required
- 5-10 Years experience
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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