Lead Splunk Engineer Full Time NEW

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Senior Splunk Lead/Observability Engineering Lead

Location: London (Hybrid – 50% onsite)
Contract: Contract
Rate: Open to negotiation
Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

We’re currently seeking an experienced Senior Splunk Lead/Observability Engineering Lead to join a high-profile technology programme within a large enterprise environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior engineer who is passionate about observability, automation, and platform engineering. You’ll play a key role in shaping enterprise-wide monitoring standards, driving automation-first practices, and leading the evolution of a large-scale Splunk platform.

The Role

As the technical lead within the Observability team, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise monitoring solutions while working closely with engineering teams, DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.

You’ll champion best practices, develop reusable monitoring patterns through Infrastructure as Code, mentor engineers, and ensure the organisation continues to evolve its observability capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.

• Develop automation-first monitoring patterns using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

• Configure, administer, and optimise Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI environments.

• Design scalable, modular observability architectures supporting multiple business units.

• Integrate Splunk with enterprise data sources, monitoring platforms, automation tools, and ITSM solutions.

• Drive monitoring standards, governance, and best practices across engineering teams.

• Investigate complex incidents and continuously improve platform reliability and monitoring coverage.

• Produce high-quality technical documentation and provide technical leadership to engineers across the programme.

Essential Skills & Experience

We’re looking for candidates with:

• 10+ years’ experience within Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Observability.

• At least 5 years’ hands-on experience with Splunk engineering.

• Strong experience implementing and administering Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI.

• Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise Splunk platforms.

• Hands-on automation experience using Terraform and GitHub.

• Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, logs, metrics, and event correlation.

• Experience integrating Splunk with enterprise monitoring ecosystems and ITSM platforms.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical direction.

Desirable Experience

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

• Control-M

• xMatters

• Jira

• Confluence

• OpenShift

• Azure or AWS cloud platforms

• Performance tuning and optimisation

• Monitoring and security integrations

Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the programme, active SC Clearance is essential. Unfortunately, candidates without current SC Clearance cannot be considered.

Apply today with your latest CV for immediate consideration.