Splunk Architect & Observability Specialist

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in Manchester is seeking a skilled Splunk professional to manage and optimise our Splunk platforms (Cloud/ITSI) across production environments. The role focuses on improving data ingestion, dashboards, and alerting while collaborating with DevOps and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on Splunk experience, Linux knowledge, and ITIL-style incident/change management skills to support enterprise-scale workloads and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud experience.
• Certified to architect or consultant level.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Strong data onboarding, parsing, and transformation skills.
• 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

Monitoring & Observability

Data Onboarding/Parsing

Linux/Infrastructure

Incident/Problem/Change Mgmt

Root Cause Analysis

Enterprise-scale Environments

Job description

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd in Manchester is seeking a skilled Splunk professional to manage and optimise our Splunk platforms (Cloud/ITSI) across production environments. The role focuses on improving data ingestion, dashboards, and alerting while collaborating with DevOps and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on Splunk experience, Linux knowledge, and ITIL-style incident/change management skills to support enterprise-scale workloads and on-call rotations.