Splunk Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 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, and telemetry streams.
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts including routing, switching, wireless networking, and 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.
• Desirable: Scripting and automation skills using Python or APIs.
• Desirable: Exposure to software-defined or controller-based networking environments.
• Desirable: Knowledge of automation and CI/CD-enabled infrastructure deployments.
• Desirable: Experience supporting large-scale network environments with thousands of devices.
• Desirable: Understanding of network KPIs, availability metrics, capacity monitoring, and performance analysis.

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.

Technologies:

• CI/CD
• Incident Management
• Support
• Network
• Python
• Splunk

More:

We are hiring a Splunk Engineer for a 12-month contract based in Chester, with three days onsite per week. This is an inside IR35 role via umbrella, with a day rate of up to £550. You will join a large-scale enterprise technology environment focused on network monitoring, observability, and operational analytics, working closely with Network Engineering, Operations, Observability, and Architecture teams. We offer the opportunity to help shape monitoring strategy, work with modern technologies, and contribute to the resilience and performance of critical services at scale, alongside competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunities.

last updated 34 week of 2026