Summary: The role of a Splunk Engineer at Nord Group involves driving transformation in the financial technology landscape by designing, implementing, and maintaining the Splunk environment within the Investment Banking Technology division. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure robust monitoring and security of financial systems and data. The ideal candidate will have a strong DevOps mindset and extensive experience in managing Splunk platforms, particularly in the financial services sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the health, stability, and performance of the Splunk platform through patching, version upgrades, and performance optimization.
• Implement best practices for secure patch management.
• Manage end-to-end onboarding of diverse data sources from financial applications, security devices, network appliances, and cloud environments.
• Leverage modern observability tools to enhance and expand monitoring capabilities.
• Partner with incident response teams to deliver actionable insights during security incidents.
• Assist teams with Splunk adoption, including creating effective dashboards and alerts.

Key Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a Splunk Engineer, ideally within the financial services sector.
• Proficiency in SPL/SPL2 (Splunk Query Language), Linux, and networking.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Solarwinds, and Cribl.
• Knowledge of containers (Docker) and Kubernetes, including deploying Splunk components in Kubernetes clusters with Splunk Operator.
• Familiarity with EDR, NDR, and XDR solutions.
• Strong DevOps mindset, including experience with code reviews, automated pipelines, and iterative feature releases.
• Understanding of incident management processes (bonus skill).
• Expertise in capacity management (bonus skill).
• Experience working closely with security and network operations teams (bonus skill).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London Area

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT