At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and implementation of monitoring solutions in a dynamic finance environment.
- Company: Leading finance house with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Flexible part-time hours, competitive pay, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Ideal for those seeking a flexible role during core office hours.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping observability standards and mentoring a talented team.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in Splunk, automation, and leading technical projects.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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.
For this opportunity, you will have proven skills in:
- 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, to demonstrate technical ownership
- Experience in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI implementations, high expertise of the capabilities of Splunk and an understanding of its future
- Administration experience of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI
Essential Criteria:
We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:
- Proven experience of leading with the validation and design (architectural level) delivering 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)
- Experience with integrating Splunk with data sources and other monitoring, automation and ITSM tools
- Strong data analysis skills, correlating data from multiple data sources
- Ability to articulate 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
- 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
Due to the nature of this role, it could suit somebody looking for a part-time opportunity - hours to suit, during core office hours.
Splunk Lead Engineer in Street employer: VIQU IT Recruitment
As a leading finance house located in London, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility with part-time hours tailored to suit your needs, while our commitment to mentoring and best practices ensures that you will thrive in your role as a Lead Splunk Engineer. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and collaboration, providing you with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the technology domain.
