Splunk Lead Engineer

Lead Splunk Engineer – London 2/3 days per week – SC Cleared

My client a leading finance house are looking for a Lead Splunk Engineer to take the lead in the design and implementation of monitoring and observability patterns and standards within the Observability Team. This role will act as a technical authority, ensuring best practices are followed, an automation‑first approach is taken, and mentoring the team to build sustainable capability, while advocating monitoring and observability best practice to the wider technology domain.

Minimum Criteria

• Building effective working relationships with others and providing challenge where appropriate
• Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation
• Experience researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs, or increase levels of service to demonstrate technical ownership
• Experience in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI implementations, with high expertise of the capabilities of Splunk and an understanding of its future
• Administration experience of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI

Essential Criteria

• Be Splunk Certified and have an in‑depth knowledge of Splunk from sophisticated designs, development of use cases through to operational support
• Have demonstrable experience configuring Splunk ITSI using REST API
• Have previous experience in automation with Splunk using Terraform and GitHub
• Have an understanding and experience of different monitoring technologies and how they can be exploited to deliver insights and business value
• Have demonstrable experience managing sophisticated Splunk platforms serving multiple business units and use cases such as Security, IT Operations, and transaction monitoring
• Be able to evidence experience integrating Splunk with data sources and other monitoring, automation and ITSM tools
• Have strong data analysis skills, correlating data from multiple data sources
• Be capable of articulating sophisticated designs, code and applications for large‑scale projects into modular chunks
• Have demonstrable experience working on multiple work‑streams to deadlines, managing conflicting and changing demands across a sophisticated portfolio
• Be able to demonstrate good judgement, problem‑solving and analytical skills
• Have the ability to balance and analyse a variety of internal and external sources of information
• Have familiarity with Agile ways of working
• Have good social interpersonal skills to interpret and present information to a variety of recipients, including senior management, using suitable modes of communication
• Have a strong record of forming and maintaining positive relationships with business colleagues and demonstrating an interest in and understanding of business processes
• Proven influencing skills to engage, influence and challenge partners

Excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic team

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