Splunk Specialist - Observability & Cloud Engineer (Hybrid)

HCLTech; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation allowance

Term life insurance

Business travel insurance

Job summary

HCLTech in Manchester is seeking a Splunk Specialist in a hybrid role at a client site. You will maintain Splunk Enterprise and Cloud environments, optimise data ingestion and search performance, and ensure robust observability across critical apps.

You will work with DevOps and application teams, manage incidents and changes, perform root cause analyses, and drive automation while upholding security and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud at architect/consultant level.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability.
• Expert in data onboarding, parsing and transformation.
• Good understanding of Linux platforms and infrastructure.
• Experience in incident, problem and change management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Experience 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.
• A supportive, diverse, and global team with a brilliant culture.
• Great opportunities to make the role your own, upskill yourself and get involved with exciting projects.

Skills

Splunk

Monitoring

Data onboarding

Linux

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Enterprise-scale

Job description

HCLTech in Manchester is seeking a Splunk Specialist in a hybrid role at a client site. You will maintain Splunk Enterprise and Cloud environments, optimise data ingestion and search performance, and ensure robust observability across critical apps.

You will work with DevOps and application teams, manage incidents and changes, perform root cause analyses, and drive automation while upholding security and compliance standards.