Senior Splunk Platform Engineer (Payments/Banking) (h/f)
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We are seeking an experienced Senior Splunk Engineer to take ownership of a large-scale, distributed Splunk environment supporting high-volume corporate banking and payments operations.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform administration, architecture design, performance optimisation, secure data ingestion, automation, and compliance within a regulated financial services environment.
You will play a key role in enhancing a global Splunk platform that delivers Real Time payments monitoring, operational analytics, and compliance reporting. The role combines platform engineering, DevOps automation, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring responsibilities., * Administer, monitor, and support a global Splunk platform, managing clustered architectures including Indexer Clusters, Search Head Clusters, Universal and Heavy Forwarders, and SmartStore storage configurations. Focus on maintaining high availability, platform resilience, security, and optimal system performance.
- Design, deploy, document, and continuously optimise platform components including monitoring and alerting frameworks, troubleshooting playbooks, and operational support procedures.
- Optimise search and indexing performance, implement distributed search strategies, manage data model acceleration, and produce summary-based reporting to improve query efficiency and business insight delivery.
- Lead data onboarding activities, working with business and technology stakeholders to integrate new data sources and users onto the platform, particularly supporting payments and transaction monitoring data.
- Design and develop analytics artefacts including interactive dashboards, visualisations, alerts, scheduled reports, applications, views, database and file-based lookups, and data ingestion pipelines.
- Support security, risk, and compliance requirements by implementing secure ingestion pipelines in PCI-sensitive environments, contributing to platform security controls, and supporting regulatory and audit reporting requirements.
- Drive automation and modern delivery practices using Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, Jenkins, GitHub, and AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, including QA testing and controlled production deployments.
- Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices in Splunk development and operations, and contributing to platform governance, documentation standards, and long-term strategic platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with Splunk in clustered, distributed environments.
- Strong experience across Splunk design, administration, troubleshooting and optimisation.
- Proven expertise in SmartStore configuration and optimisation.
- Strong background in secure data ingestion and handling sensitive data.
- Experience tuning distributed search and improving performance at scale.
- Experience working within regulated financial services environments.
- Strong Linux infrastructure knowledge.
- Scripting capability in Bash, Python or Perl.
- Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, AWS environments)
Desirable Experience
- Payments processing or corporate banking systems experience.
- PCI compliance regulations and reporting exposure.
- Fraud detection or transaction monitoring environments.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring tooling (eg, AppDynamics).
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.
If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.
