Network Splunk Developer

McGregor Boyall Associates Ltd.
Wrexham, UK
11 days ago
Apply on www.collegerecruiter.com
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£143,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Data Analysis Continuous Integration Networking Hardware Python (Programming Language) Network Monitoring Routing SAP Sales and Distribution Simple Network Management Protocols Syslog Wide Area Networks Computer Networking Systems
+3 more
Computer Network Operations Data Ingestion Splunk

Job description

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Desirable

  • Python, SPL or API scripting experience.
  • Experience with SDN/controller-based networks.
  • Exposure to automation, CI/CD and large-scale network environments.
  • Understanding of network KPIs, availability and performance metrics.

Benefits & conditions

£550 per day 12-month contract Chester Hybrid 3 days per week

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on www.collegerecruiter.com
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:06 min

Developer experience and project variety at scale

Alexandra Petri · World Congress 2023

2:38 min

Establishing comprehensive monitoring and log management

Michael Eder +1 · LIVE

46 sec

Automating telemetry collection through robust Telegraf deployment

Mathias Palmersheim Mathias Palmersheim · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:04 min

Enhancing network privacy with routing fees and onion routing

Andreas M Antonopoulos · LIVE

3:10 min

Correlating dispersed logs using structured request tracing

Michael Eder +1 · LIVE

2:30 min

Discovering and instrumenting services using systemd process enumeration

Mathias Palmersheim Mathias Palmersheim · Europe 2026 Virtual

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all