Splunk Engineer (Contract->Perm)

Client: Investment Bank Location: London, hybrid 4 days reducing to 3 days at permanent conversion. Job Title: Splunk Engineer Role specifics: Initial 6 month contract, then converting to permanent staff. Rate: TBC Conversion Salary: Up to £85k + Bonus You will be responsible for: Working with stakeholders to understand monitoring, alerting, and reporting requirements. Designing Splunk use cases from log sources and event data. Onboarding new log sources into Splunk. Configuring indexes, sourcetypes, field extractions, parsing, and data inputs. Building searches, dashboards, alerts, and reports in Splunk. Monitoring event types and identifying patterns, anomalies, or operational risks. Creating correlation rules and alerts based on specific log activity. Supporting log ingestion from applications, infrastructure, security tools, and network devices. Ensuring logs are correctly structured, indexed, and searchable. Documenting use cases, data flows, alert logic, and operational procedures. Working with security, infrastructure, and application teams to improve observability and detection capability. Required Skills