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, automation first approach is taken, and mentoring the team to build sustainable capability, advocate monitoring and observability best practice to the wider technology domain.

Minimum Criteria For this opportunity you will have proven skills in:
· Building effective working relationships with others and provide 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, 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:
· 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 Git Hub.
· 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, transaction monitoring).
· Be able to evidence experience with 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 of working on multiple work-streams to deadlines, taking care of 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 with an ability 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 required to engage, influence and challenge partners. Excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic team