Role Title: Splunk and Openshift Observability Engineer Location: Sheffield/Birmingham/London/ Hybrid - 2/3 days per week onsite Duration: 8 months Rate: £494 per day inside ir35

We're looking for a Splunk & OpenShift Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise enterprise-grade monitoring across hybrid Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.

This is a high-impact role where you'll shape observability strategy, enhance service intelligence, and ensure platform reliability at scale - balancing performance, cost efficiency, and security governance.

You'll work at the intersection of platform engineering, observability, and service intelligence, helping to transform raw telemetry into actionable insight. This is an opportunity to influence reliability strategy, improve operational maturity, and deliver measurable value across a modern cloud-native estate.

What You'll Be Doing

Design, deploy, and operate Splunk Enterprise and ITSI across hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms Onboard and normalise data at scale (HEC, Universal Forwarder, Deployment Server), aligning to CIM standards Build and optimise ITSI service models: service trees, KPIs, adaptive thresholds, NEAP policies, glass tables, deep dives, and health scoring Deliver OpenShift-focused executive and operational dashboards, including: Cluster/API/etcd health Node readiness and resource pressure Pod restart trends and noisy-neighbour detect...