Splunk Lead Engineer in City of London

My client, a leading finance house, is 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, advocating monitoring and observability best practice to the wider technology domain.

Minimum Criteria

• Proven skills in building effective working relationships with others and providing challenge where appropriate.
• Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation.
• Experience of researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, demonstrating technical ownership.
• Experience in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI implementations, with high expertise in 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.
• Demonstrable experience configuring Splunk ITSI using REST API.
• Previous experience in automation with Splunk using Terraform and GitHub.
• Understanding and experience of different monitoring technologies and how they can be exploited to deliver insights and business value.
• Demonstrable experience managing sophisticated Splunk platforms serving multiple business units and use cases (such as Security, IT Operations, transaction monitoring).
• Evidence of experience with integrating Splunk with data sources and other monitoring, automation and ITSM tools.
• Strong data analysis skills, correlating data from multiple data sources.
• Capability of articulating sophisticated designs, code and applications for large scale projects into modular chunks.
• Demonstrable experience of working on multiple work-streams to deadlines, taking care of conflicting and changing demands across a sophisticated portfolio.
• Good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to balance and analyse a variety of internal and external sources of information.
• Familiarity with Agile ways of working.
• Good social interpersonal skills with an ability to interpret and present information to a variety of recipients, including senior management, using suitable modes of communication.
• Strong record of forming and maintaining positive relationships with business colleagues and demonstrating an interest in and understanding of business processes.
• Proven influencing skills required to engage, influence and challenge partners.

Excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic team!