Splunk Engineer

Splunk Engineer

Location: Chester - 3 days onsite per week
Contract
Day Rate: Up to £550 per day (inside IR35 via umbrella)

12 month contract

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Splunk Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise technology environment, helping to drive the next generation of network monitoring, observability, and operational analytics.

In this role, you'll be responsible for transforming network telemetry into actionable insight, enabling Operations and Engineering teams to proactively identify issues, improve service performance, and enhance operational resilience. You'll work closely with Network Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to design and deliver monitoring solutions that provide visibility across a complex estate spanning routing, switching, wireless, and SD-WAN technologies.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Splunk professional with strong networking knowledge who enjoys solving complex operational challenges and working with large volumes of telemetry data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Splunk dashboards, searches, reports, and visualisations that support operational monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Collect, ingest, normalise, and manage network telemetry data, including logs, metrics, events, and streaming data.
• Develop and optimise alerting capabilities to proactively identify performance degradation, service disruption, and availability risks.
• Partner with Network Engineering teams to understand device behaviour, performance indicators, and operational requirements.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and proactive problem identification through effective telemetry and monitoring solutions.
• Validate telemetry data quality, ensuring information is accurate, complete, and available when required.
• Identify gaps in monitoring coverage and implement improvements to strengthen observability across the network estate.
• Support the onboarding of new network technologies and platforms into the monitoring environment.
• Collaborate with Observability and Monitoring Architects to align telemetry solutions with enterprise monitoring strategies.
• Document telemetry sources, dashboards, alert logic, and operational procedures.
• Participate in major network deployments and change activities, validating monitoring and alerting effectiveness.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience working with Splunk, including data ingestion, dashboard development, search creation, reporting, and alerting.
• Strong understanding of network monitoring and telemetry technologies.
• Experience working with:
  • SNMP
  • Syslog
  • APIs
  • Device metrics
  • Telemetry streams
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts including:
  • Routing
  • Switching
  • Wireless networking
  • SD-WAN
• Experience supporting operational environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data quality and actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and operational stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience with Splunk ITSI or enterprise observability solutions.
• Scripting and automation skills using Python or APIs.
• Exposure to software-defined or controller-based networking environments.
• Knowledge of automation and CI/CD-enabled infrastructure deployments.
• Experience supporting large-scale network environments with thousands of devices.
• Understanding of network KPIs, availability metrics, capacity monitoring, and performance analysis.

What You'll Bring

• A passion for observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• The ability to translate technical telemetry into meaningful business and operational insights.
• A collaborative approach to working with engineering, operations, and architecture teams.
• A proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement and innovation.

Why Join Us?

• Work within a large-scale, complex enterprise network environment.
• Help shape and enhance observability and monitoring capabilities.
• Collaborate with experienced engineering and operational teams.
• Access to modern technologies and the opportunity to influence monitoring strategy and best practice.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunities.

Apply today to play a key role in building the monitoring and observability capabilities that keep critical services running at scale.