Senior Splunk Platform Engineer (Payments / Banking)

Senior Splunk Platform Engineer (Payments / Banking)

London- (Hybrid)

X3 days on-site per week

£600-£650

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

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.

The role:

• 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.

Key Skills and Experience:

• 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 (e.g., AppDynamics).

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

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. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”