Senior Splunk Engineer

Senior Splunk Engineer for Automation and Reliability Engineering Project

Project Summary

• Support Automation and Reliability Engineering project and operations.
• Responsibilities:
• Observability Engineering and Governance
• Architect and maintain enterprise SIEM solutions aligned with operational resilience mandates (e.g. MAS TRM DORA APRA CPS 230).
• Lead deployment configuration and optimization of Splunk for full-stack visibility across infrastructure applications networks and user experience.
• Define and enforce telemetry data governance standardsmetrics logs and tracesensuring consistency retention compliance and security.
• Integrate Splunk with incident management ITSM and AIOps systems to enable predictive alerting and anomaly detection.
• Act as the SIEM/Splunk subject matter expert (SME) for architecture reviews platform upgrades and performance tuning.
• Reliability Engineering and Automation
• Implement and champion SRE frameworks and reliability practices for mission-critical systems.
• Design and automate runbooks alerts and self-healing workflows using Python Ansible and Terraform.
• Collaborate with Application Infrastructure and Cyber teams to embed reliability principles into the delivery lifecycle.
• Conduct resilience chaos and capacity testing aligned with business continuity and disaster recovery standards.
• Define and track error budgets reliability scorecards and service health indicators for production workloads.
• Cloud & Platform Integration
• Engineer SIEM for cloud-native workloads in AWS and Azure ensuring visibility across compute storage and network layers.
• Integrate Splunk and cloud observability tools into CI/CD pipelines and landing zones to ensure continuous compliance.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) models using Terraform and Ansible for consistent auditable provisioning.
• Collaborate with Cloud DevOps and Security teams to ensure telemetry aligns with audit compliance and operational risk requirements.
• Operational Excellence and Collaboration
• Drive reduction in incident recurrence MTTR and manual intervention through observability-led automation.
• Partner with Service Delivery Cyber and Application teams to enable predictive incident prevention and root cause transparency.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards and reports showcasing availability reliability KPIs and operational risk indicators.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents post-incident reviews and audits ensuring lessons learned are codified into automation and process improvements.

Skillset (Must have)

• Possess a degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Infrastructure Cloud or Site Reliability Engineering related roles with at least 5 years of experience specializing in SIEM/Splunk engineering or observability in financial or regulated environments.
• Proven hands-on expertise in the following technical areas:

• SIEM Platforms: Splunk (must) EL/Elastic
• Automation/IaC Terraform Ansible Python CI/CD tools
• Cloud and other platforms and integrations: AWS (CloudWatch X-Ray CloudTrail) Azure (Monitor Log Analytics App Insights) Datadog ServiceNow
  • Deep understanding of SRE principles service health modelling error budgets and auto-remediation design.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to perform deep-dive investigations and develop long-term preventive solutions.
  • Familiarity with financial sector operational resilience frameworks regulatory compliance and incident governance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with diverse stakeholders.
  • Agile fast learner and able to adapt to changes

Skillset (Good to have)

Preferred Certifications:

• Splunk Certified Power User / Splunk Certified Admin / Splunk Certified Architect
• Terraform / Ansible / Python Certified Expert
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Azure DevOps Expert
• SRE Foundation / Practitioner (DevOps Institute)
• ITIL v4 Managing Professional