Splunk Engineer: Network Telemetry & Observability

Adecco; Chester; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Part time

Job summary

Adecco is seeking a skilled Splunk Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise network environment in Chester. The role is a contract position with a day rate up to £550 (inside IR35 via umbrella).

You will design and maintain Splunk dashboards and alerts, ingest and normalise network telemetry, and collaborate with Network Engineering and Observability teams. Responsibilities include improving monitoring coverage, validating data quality, and supporting major deployments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Splunk including ingestion, dashboards, search, reporting and alerting.
• Strong understanding of network monitoring and telemetry technologies.
• Experience with SNMP, Syslog, APIs, device metrics, telemetry streams.
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts (Routing, Switching, Wireless, SD-WAN).
• Experience supporting operational environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with focus on data quality.
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Splunk dashboards, searches, reports and visualisations.
• Collect, ingest, normalise and manage network telemetry data.
• Develop and optimise alerting to identify performance degradation and availability risks.
• Partner with Network Engineering to understand device behaviour and requirements.
• Support incident management, RCA and proactive problem identification.
• Validate telemetry data quality and availability.
• Identify gaps in monitoring and improve observability across the network estate.
• Support onboarding of new network technologies into monitoring.
• Collaborate with Observability and Monitoring Architects to align telemetry with strategy.
• Document telemetry sources, dashboards and alert logic.
• Participate in major network deployments and change activities.

Skills

Splunk

Network monitoring

SNMP

Syslog

APIs

Device metrics

Telemetry streams

Routing

Switching

Wireless networking

SD-WAN

Analytical skills

Communication

Tools

Splunk ITSI

Job description

Adecco is seeking a skilled Splunk Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise network environment in Chester. The role is a contract position with a day rate up to £550 (inside IR35 via umbrella).

You will design and maintain Splunk dashboards and alerts, ingest and normalise network telemetry, and collaborate with Network Engineering and Observability teams. Responsibilities include improving monitoring coverage, validating data quality, and supporting major deployments.