Network Telemetry & Splunk Engineer (Hybrid)

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited is seeking an experienced Network Splunk Developer to join a large enterprise network environment in Chester. The role focuses on telemetry, monitoring and observability across a complex infrastructure, with hybrid work and a £550 daily rate on a 12-month contract.

You will collect, normalise and onboard telemetry, develop dashboards and alerts in Splunk, and collaborate with routing, switching, wireless and SD-WAN teams.

Qualifications

• 46 years' experience in network operations, telemetry, monitoring or data analysis.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, including routing, switching, wireless and SD-WAN.
• Hands-on Splunk experience covering data ingestion, searches, dashboards and alerting.
• Experience with SNMP, syslog, telemetry streams, APIs and device metrics.
• Ability to translate network telemetry into actionable operational insights.
• Familiarity with incident, problem and change management.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collect, normalise and onboard network device telemetry, metrics, logs and events into Splunk.
• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, searches, visualisations and alerts for Network Operations.
• Work closely with Network Engineering teams across routing, switching, wireless and SD-WAN environments.
• Develop alerting strategies to identify network degradation, anomalies and availability risks.
• Support incident triage, root-cause analysis and proactive network monitoring.
• Validate telemetry data quality, identify gaps and work with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Support onboarding of new network platforms and device types.
• Document telemetry sources, dashboards, alert logic and operational processes.
• Provide support during major network rollouts and changes.

Skills

Strong networking knowledge

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Splunk

SNMP

Syslog

Telemetry streams

APIs

Job description

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited is seeking an experienced Network Splunk Developer to join a large enterprise network environment in Chester. The role focuses on telemetry, monitoring and observability across a complex infrastructure, with hybrid work and a £550 daily rate on a 12-month contract.

You will collect, normalise and onboard telemetry, develop dashboards and alerts in Splunk, and collaborate with routing, switching, wireless and SD-WAN teams.