Contract Length 3-6 months TBC
Clearance: SC

Minimum Criteria
We’re looking for someone who has the following key skills and experience:
· Experience of building effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate
· Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation
· Experience of researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, to demonstrate technical ownership
· Experience in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI implementations, high expertise of the capabilities of Splunk and an understanding of its future.
· Administration experience of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ITSI.

Essential Criteria
We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:
· Be Splunk Certified and have an in-depth knowledge of Splunk from sophisticated designs, development of use cases through to operational support.
· Have demonstrable experience configuring Splunk ITSI using REST API.
· Have previous experience in automation with Splunk using Terraform and GitHub.
· Have an understanding and experience of different monitoring technologies and how they can be exploited to deliver insights and business value.
· Have demonstrable experience managing sophisticated Splunk platforms serving multiple business units and use cases (such as Security, IT Operations, transaction monitoring).
· Be able to evidence experience with integrating Splunk with data sources and other monitoring, automation and ITSM tools.
· Have strong data analysis skills, correlating data from multiple data sources.
· Be capable of articulating sophisticated designs, code and applications for large scale projects into modular chunks.
· Have demonstrable experience of working on multiple work-streams to deadlines, taking care of conflicting and changing demands across a sophisticated portfolio.
· Be able to demonstrate good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
· Have the ability to balance and analyse a variety of internal and external sources of information.
· Have familiarity with Agile ways of working.
· Have good social interpersonal skills with an ability to interpret and present information to a variety of recipients, including senior management, using suitable modes of communication.
· Have a strong record of forming and maintaining positive relationships with business colleagues and demonstrating an interest in and understanding of business processes.
· Proven influencing skills required to engage, influence and challenge partners.

Desirable Criteria
It would also be beneficial, but not necessary, to have some of the following
· Solid grasp of some of these technologies: Control-M, xMatters, Jira, Confluence, Openshift.
· Practical expertise in performance tuning, optimization and problems analysis.
· Have knowledge of cloud environments, infrastructure automation tools, monitoring and security.

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