Senior Infrastructure Specialist - Splunk

Axiom Software Solutions Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Axiom Software Solutions Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist with Splunk expertise for a hybrid contract role. You will manage and optimise Splunk platforms, coordinate incident and change processes, and collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to improve observability.

The ideal candidate has strong Splunk hands-on experience, Linux know-how, and a background in enterprise-scale environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud, 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Splunk

Linux

Observability

Data onboarding

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Enterprise-scale

On-call support

Job description

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 efficiencySupport 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