Splunk – Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Euroclear; Kraków; On-site; PLN 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Euroclear in Kraków seeks a Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer to ensure operational reliability of monitoring platforms. This role demands hands-on expertise in Splunk and the ability to influence technical standards.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in engineering roles, with skills in automation and scripting. Euroclear offers a permanent position within its Group Technology Services, a division responsible for the global infrastructure of the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in senior engineering roles with ownership of complex technical topics.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and influencing design decisions.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational reliability and improvement of monitoring platforms.
• Act as a senior technical leader for incidents and problem management.
• Collaborate with teams to capture and prioritize monitoring requirements.
• Lead implementation of monitoring solutions aligned with business needs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members.

Skills

Splunk expertise

Ansible skills

Powershell scripting

Python scripting

Linux & Windows technology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Dynatrace

Cribl

Tivoli Monitoring

Netcool Omnibus

Flexera

OpenTelemetry

Azure

Openshift

AIOps

Job description

Job Description

As a Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer within GTS Enterprise System Management, you will play a key role in shaping, securing, and evolving observability capabilities supporting Euroclear’s critical services. This role requires deep, hands‑on expertise with Splunk Enterprise. You will act as a technical authority, driving design, standards, and complex implementations across monitoring, automation, and observability. Beyond delivery, you will influence standards, lead strategic improvements, and provide technical leadership across complex, cross‑team initiatives.

Your Responsibilities

• Ensuring the operational reliability, resilience, stability, and continuous improvement of monitoring and observability platforms in a hybrid and complex environment, with accountability for sustainable service outcomes.
• Acting as a senior technical leader for support activities (incidents, alerts, changes, problem management), while driving the sustainable resolution of recurring issues and steering corrective actions on high‑impact topics.
• Collaborating closely with IT experts, engineering teams, and stakeholders to capture, challenge, and prioritize monitoring requirements, while aligning delivery choices with company objectives, risk constraints, and strategic priorities.
• Designing and leading the implementation of monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, log ingestion, and automation solutions, aligned with business, operational, architecture, and control requirements.
• Leading architecture and design discussions across infrastructure and application domains, influencing target solutions and ensuring implementations are sustainable, secure, scalable, and fit for purpose.
• Driving the standardization, industrialization, governance, and strategic evolution of Enterprise System Management solutions (monitoring, observability, Flexera), including the definition of best practices and technical guardrails.
• Developing and maintaining automation solutions to reduce manual effort, improve service quality, controls and enhance scalability.
• Ensuring compliance with operational standards, security requirements, and controls in a highly regulated environment.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to team members by coaching on solution design, troubleshooting approaches, operational excellence, shaping standards and supporting capability growth across the squad and beyond.
• Taking ownership of complex cross‑team initiatives and influencing the technical roadmap for observability and automation capabilities in line with enterprise priorities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Participating in the Watch‑Duty rotation, as well as supporting out‑of‑hours activities such as weekend releases and critical interventions when required.

Your Profile

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent through experience.
• Have at least 5 years of experience in senior engineering roles with ownership of complex technical topics.
• Hands‑on expertise in Splunk (administration, configuration, data onboarding, search, dashboards, alerting).
• Skills in automation/scripting with one of the following languages:
  • Ansible
  • Powershell
  • Python
• Linux / Windows / Network technology
• Experience with the following products or technologies is a plus:
  • Dynatrace / Cribl / Tivoli Monitoring / Netcool Omnibus / Flexera
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Azure / Openshift
  • AIOps / Anomaly detection / AI‑assisted observability
  • Other experiences in observability and monitoring solutions.
• Be comfortable leading technical discussions, influencing key design decisions, challenging proposals when needed, and engaging constructively with stakeholders across multiple technology domains.
• Show strong analytical skills, a structured and proactive mindset, and the ability to work autonomously on complex and ambiguous topics while balancing technical excellence, operational stability, control requirements, and customer needs.
• Be open to change, able to lead transformation in tools, processes and ways of working, and willing to share expertise, coach others, and contribute to the growth of the team.
• Demonstrate the ability to define standards, promote engineering best practices, and influence technical direction beyond the immediate scope of assigned tasks.
• Have working experience in an Agile context and be capable of operating effectively under pressure, handling complex situations and meeting strict deadlines.
• Be fluent in English.

Permanent Position

This is a permanent position; we do not offer freelance or contract arrangements for the role.

About The Team

Group Technology Services (GTS) plans, builds, and runs the global infrastructure of Euroclear and is responsible for IT service management to the operating entities of the various Group markets. GTS operates its IT systems and services to ensure cost‑effective delivery of agreed service levels supporting business process requirements, for both normal operations and disaster recovery.