Senior Infrastructure Specialist - Splunk

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Specialist - Splunk
Location: Manchester(Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

In-scope technologies/products:

Splunk, Linux

Skillsets required:

• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud and certified to architect or consultant level
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Strong experience with data onboarding, parsing, and transformation
• Good understanding of Linux platform and infrastructure
• Experience in incident, problem, and change management processes
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and perform root cause analysis
• Experience working in enterprise-scale environments

Scope of services:

• Maintain Splunk platform (Cloud/ITSI) to meet business and operational requirements
• Provide support for production issues, including incident, problem, and change management
• Optimise platform performance, data ingestion, and search efficiency
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, and onboarding activities
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and application teams to onboard workloads and improve observability
• Monitor and assess the performance of dashboards, reports, and use cases using tools and SPL
• Drive automation and simplification of operational processes
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and audit requirements
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives, including reliability, resilience, and cost optimisation
• Deliver optimisation for monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to support critical applications and services
• Participate in on-call/24x7 support rota where required