SC Cleared Splunk Engineer - 3-Month Contract - Fully Remote
Posted 1 day ago by Hamilton Barnes
£500 Per day
Inside
Remote
London, UK
Summary: The role of SC Cleared Splunk Engineer involves hands-on ownership of Splunk platform engineering, optimization, and operational support within a secure environment. The position is delivery-focused, requiring practical experience in building, maintaining, and improving Splunk deployments for security monitoring and operational intelligence. The engineer will work closely with security, engineering, and operations teams to ensure performance and reliability. This is a fully remote, 3-month contract position with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain Splunk infrastructure, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, and deployment Servers.
- Onboard, normalise, and optimise data sources across security, infrastructure, and application logs.
- Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts to support SOC and operational teams.
- Tune searches and alerts to improve performance, reduce noise, and enhance detection capability.
- Support incident investigation and troubleshooting using Splunk search and analytics.
- Ensure Splunk platform performance, scalability, and reliability in line with secure environment requirements.
- Work closely with security, engineering, and operations teams to deliver measurable improvements.
Key Skills:
- Active SC Clearance (mandatory).
- Strong hands-on experience as a Splunk Engineer.
- Proven experience managing Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of SPL, data models, and performance optimisation.
- Experience onboarding diverse log sources (security tools, OS logs, network devices, cloud platforms).
- Familiarity with security monitoring use cases and SOC environments.
- Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) is highly desirable.
Salary (Rate): £500 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
SC Cleared Splunk Engineer - 3-Month Contract - Fully Remote
We are hiring an SC Cleared Splunk Engineer to take hands-on ownership of Splunk platform engineering, optimisation, and operational support within a secure environment. This role is delivery-focused, requiring practical experience building, maintaining, and improving Splunk deployments to support security monitoring and operational intelligence.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Splunk infrastructure, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, and deployment Servers.
- Onboard, normalise, and optimise data sources across security, infrastructure, and application logs.
- Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts to support SOC and operational teams.
- Tune searches and alerts to improve performance, reduce noise, and enhance detection capability.
- Support incident investigation and troubleshooting using Splunk search and analytics.
- Ensure Splunk platform performance, scalability, and reliability in line with secure environment requirements.
- Work closely with security, engineering, and operations teams to deliver measurable improvements.
What You Will Ideally Bring
- Active SC Clearance (mandatory).
- Strong hands-on experience as a Splunk Engineer,.
- Proven experience managing Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of SPL, data models, and performance optimisation.
- Experience onboarding diverse log sources (security tools, OS logs, network devices, cloud platforms).
- Familiarity with security monitoring use cases and SOC environments.
- Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) is highly desirable.
Contract Details
- Duration: 3 months (with potential extension)
- Day Rate: £500 per day (Inside IR35)
- Location: Fully Remote
- Start Date: ASAP