Senior Network Splunk Engineer Telemetry & Observability

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited; Birkenhead; Hybrid; GBP 87,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited seeks an experienced Network Splunk Developer to join a large enterprise network environment in Chester. You will own telemetry, monitoring and observability across a complex estate, building dashboards, alerts and data pipelines in Splunk.

The role requires hands-on Splunk expertise, strong knowledge of SNMP, syslog and telemetry streams, and the ability to translate network data into actionable operational insights.

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

Splunk

Telemetry and monitoring

Enterprise networking

SNMP

Syslog

APIs

Python

Tools

SPL (Splunk)

Job description

McGregor Boyall Associates Limited seeks an experienced Network Splunk Developer to join a large enterprise network environment in Chester. You will own telemetry, monitoring and observability across a complex estate, building dashboards, alerts and data pipelines in Splunk.

The role requires hands-on Splunk expertise, strong knowledge of SNMP, syslog and telemetry streams, and the ability to translate network data into actionable operational insights.