Lead Splunk Engineer - SC Cleared

Lead Splunk Engineer (Contract) - SC Cleared

Duration: 6 months
Location: London - hybrid (50% onsite)
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

Overview

We're supporting a high-profile UK financial institution seeking an experienced Lead Splunk Engineer to join their Observability function on a contract basis.

This is a key leadership role focused on shaping monitoring and observability strategy, driving automation, and ensuring best-in-class Splunk practices across a complex enterprise environment.

The Role

As the Lead Splunk Engineer, you will act as a technical authority within the Observability team, leading the design and implementation of scalable monitoring patterns and standards.

You will champion an automation-first approach, mentor engineers, and help build long-term capability while collaborating closely with stakeholders across technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of monitoring and observability patterns
• Drive adoption of best practices across Splunk and wider monitoring tooling
• Develop automated solutions using Terraform and version-controlled frameworks (e.g. GitHub)
• Work closely with SMEs to translate requirements into scalable monitoring solutions
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers
• Investigate and leverage new features within the Splunk roadmap
• Support incident investigation and resolution across complex platforms
• Produce clear and maintainable technical documentation

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI (design, implementation, administration)
• Splunk certification with deep hands-on expertise across use cases and operations
• Proven experience building and managing enterprise-scale Splunk platforms
• Experience integrating Splunk with diverse data sources, monitoring tools, and ITSM systems
• Automation experience using Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Strong data analysis and correlation skills across multiple data sources
• Experience configuring Splunk ITSI using REST APIs
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring technologies

Desireable

• Exposure to tools such as Control-M, xMatters, Jira, Confluence, OpenShift
• Experience with performance tuning, optimisation, and platform troubleshooting
• Knowledge of cloud environments and infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with Agile delivery environments

To apply for this position please submit your CV.