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Splunk Enterprise and ITSI Expert
£130,000 - 130,000
Stealth IT Consulting Limited
Trafalgar Square, London
£130,000 - 130,000
Requirements
Must:
- Deep Splunk Enterprise expertise: SPL mastery, CIM alignment, KV stores/lookups/macros, saved searches, index/retention/RBAC design, search performance tuning.
- Advanced Splunk ITSI knowledge: Service trees/decompositions, KPIs/thresholds (adaptive/time-based), NEAP tuning, glass tables, deep dives, Service Analyzer configuration.
- Strong OpenShift/Kubernetes observability: Cluster/control-plane metrics, kube events/logs, workload/node/network/storage correlations, capacity/noisy-neighbor detection.
- Experience with data pipelines/collectors: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus scraping, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka (TLS-secured), HEC/UF/DS onboarding.
- Reliability & SLOs: Golden signals, rollout/rollback health checks, SLO/KPI mapping to namespaces/apps, executive/ops dashboards.
- Performance & cost optimisation: Workload rules, DMA, summary indexing, schedule hygiene, license/cost guardrails.
- Security & compliance: TLS/mTLS, token/cert management, PII controls, auditability, role/index mappings.
- Automation & integrations: ITSM/ChatOps routing, runbooks, CMDB enrichment, webhook/AIOps integrations.
- Preferred: Hands-on experience in regulated/financial services environments.
- Certifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk ITSI Certified Admin, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with AIOps/ML features in Splunk for anomaly detection.
- Previous work with container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) for observability at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate Splunk Enterprise and ITSI in hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Onboard data at scale using HEC, Universal Forwarders/Deployment Server; align to Common Information Model (CIM); enforce RBAC, retention policies, and cost guardrails.
- Build ITSI service decompositions, KPIs (including multi-KPI), adaptive/time-based thresholds, NEAP policies, glass tables, deep dives, and service health scoring.
- Create OpenShift-specific executive and operations views: cluster health (API/etcd), node readiness/pressure, pod restart hotspots, network/storage errors, capacity, quotas, and bursting visibility.
- Tune search/platform performance: workload rules, concurrency limits, Data Model Acceleration (DMA), summary indexing, and scheduling optimisation.
- Implement alerting, event enrichment, routing to ITSM/ChatOps, suppression windows, maintenance schedules, and runbook automation.
- Govern data ingest and security: allow/deny lists, PII handling, TLS/mTLS, token/cert governance, index/role mapping, and data quality SLAs.
- Integrate upstream sources/pipelines: OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Prometheus exporters, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka (with TLS), CMDB/ITSM enrichments, and AIOps/ML anomaly detection.
Description
We are a leading organization looking for a Splunk Enterprise and ITSI Expert for an 8-month contract role based in a hybrid work setting, requiring 3 days onsite each week in Sheffield, Birmingham, or London. This role is focused on designing and optimizing advanced observability solutions in complex environments. We offer a competitive day rate between £450 to £500 and are committed to delivering high-quality, scalable deployments. Join our team and contribute to critical initiatives in improving observability and performance in our enterprise setting.
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