Splunk Consultant/Architect at Wipro, Manchester, £Contract Rate

Splunk Consultant / Architect

Location : Manchester, UK

Employment Type: Contract / Fixed term contract

Key Technologies

• Splunk Enterprise
• Splunk Cloud
• ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)
• Linux

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
• Splunk certification at Architect or Consultant level
• Extensive experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• Strong expertise in data onboarding, parsing, indexing, and transformation
• Good understanding of Linux infrastructure and administration
• Experience supporting enterprise environments through:
• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Splunk Platform (Cloud / ITSI) to meet business and operational requirements
• Provide L2/L3 production support, including incident, problem, and change management activities
• Optimise platform performance, search efficiency, and data ingestion pipelines
• Support Splunk upgrades, migrations, integrations, and onboarding initiatives
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Application teams to improve monitoring and observability capabilities
• Assess and optimise dashboards, reports, alerts, and use cases using SPL
• Drive automation and simplification of operational processes
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to platform reliability, resilience, performance improvements, and cost optimisation initiatives
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions supporting critical business services
• Participate in an on-call / 24x7 support rota where required

Mandatory Requirements

• Splunk Architect or Consultant certification
• Strong Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud experience
• Linux administration experience
• Enterprise production support background
• Experience with observability and monitoring solutions