Splunk Administrator- 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester - Inside IR35

Splunk Administrator- 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester - Inside IR35 Role Overview An experienced Splunk Administrator within a large financial services environment. The position is responsible for the day-to-day administration, optimisation, and production support of the Splunk platform - including Splunk Cloud and ITSI - ensuring platform reliability, performance, and compliance across a complex, enterprise-scale environment. Key Responsibilities Maintain and administer the Splunk platform including Splunk Cloud and ITSI, managing data ingestion, indexing, parsing, and search performance optimisation. Provide production support across incident, problem, and change management activities, troubleshooting complex Splunk and infrastructure issues through to root cause analysis. Support platform upgrades, migrations, integrations, and onboarding of new workloads, collaborating with engineering and DevOps teams to improve monitoring and observability. Monitor and develop dashboards, reports, alerts, and use cases using SPL, ensuring platform operations comply with security, compliance, audit, and governance requirements. Drive automation and simplification of operational processes, contributing to service improvement initiatives focused on reliability, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation. Top 5 Skills Splunk administration expertise - Strong hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud at enterprise scale, including data ..... full job details .....