Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior IT Monitoring System and Automation Engineer (Splunk Monitoring & Observability)

Description

You will act as a senior technical authority shaping, securing, and evolving observability capabilities for critical services. The role focuses on designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, log ingestion, and automation solutions, while driving operational reliability, resilience, stability, and continuous improvement. You will also provide technical leadership for incident/alert/change/problem management and influence standards and strategic improvements across cross-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational reliability, resilience, stability, and continuous improvement of monitoring and observability platforms in a hybrid, complex environment

• Lead support activities (incidents, alerts, changes, problem management) and steer corrective actions for high-impact recurring issues

• Collaborate with IT and engineering stakeholders to capture and prioritize monitoring requirements aligned with business objectives, risk constraints, and strategy

• Design and lead implementation of monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, log ingestion, and automation solutions aligned with business, operational, architecture, and control requirements

• Lead architecture and design discussions across infrastructure and application domains to ensure sustainable, secure, scalable solutions

• Drive standardization, industrialization, governance, and strategic evolution of enterprise system management solutions (monitoring, observability, Flexera)

• Develop and maintain automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve service quality, controls, and scalability

• Ensure compliance with operational standards, security requirements, and controls in a highly regulated environment

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship through coaching, troubleshooting approaches, and standards

• Own complex cross-team initiatives and influence the technical roadmap for observability and automation capabilities

• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures

• Participate in Watch-Duty rotation and support out-of-hours weekend releases and critical interventions as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

• 5+ years in senior engineering roles with ownership of complex technical topics

• Hands-on expertise in Splunk (administration, configuration, data onboarding, search, dashboards, alerting)

• Automation/scripting experience using Ansible, PowerShell, or Python

• Linux/Windows/Network technology experience

• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence design decisions across multiple technology domains

• Strong analytical skills and structured, proactive working style; ability to work autonomously on complex and ambiguous topics

• Openness to transformation in tools, processes, and ways of working; willingness to share expertise and coach others

• Ability to define standards and promote engineering best practices beyond immediate task scope

• Agile working experience; able to operate effectively under pressure and meet strict deadlines

• English fluency

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

• Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing and training emphasis

• Hybrid working model (office connection 8 days per month; remote working supported)

• Professional international environment with colleagues from 80+ countries