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Full job descriptionJoin a leading independent technology and services provider as an IT Specialist.
Job Overview:
*Role: IT Specialist
*Location: Hybrid work – remote sometimes visit customer sites in Croydon or Manchester
*Contract: 1st June’26 – 1st Dec’26
*Mandatory check: SC Clearance
*Pay Rates: £485/day (via a Hays approved umbrella company).
*Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Key Responsibilities:
*Have strong experience of deploying, configuring, and managing the Dynatrace, Grafana or Splunk platforms to monitor applications, services, servers, networks, and cloud resources.
*Be proficient in collecting, processing, and analysing various telemetry signals (metrics, logs, traces, events)
*Ability to analyse telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks, availability risks, and system anomalies
*Ability to integrate Dynatrace, Grafana or Splunk with ITSM tools (such as ServiceNow) and CI/CD pipelines for proactive monitoring
*Have good problem-solving abilities with a systematic approach to diagnosing complex technical issues
*Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify patterns, and draw actionable conclusions
*Be involved in investigating incident response activities and postmortem analyses using Dynatrace, Grafana or provide insights.
*Has the ability to troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues on time, ensuring data integrity and reliability
*Have experience of scripting tools such as Python, PowerShell and CI/CD tools for automation
*Have good experience of using Cloud solutions such as Azure & AWS and containerized environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift) to implement cloud-native monitoring
*Have good knowledge of ITSM/incident management tools integration.
*Interacts with and influences colleagues and has working level contact with customers
*Applies methodical approach to issue definition and resolution
*Demonstrates effective application of knowledge
*Takes action to develop their own knowledge and represents this in their work
*Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Accreditations:
*Dynatrace Associate & Pro Certifications
*Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate
*Splunk Core Certified Power User
Desirable Skills:
*Cloud platforms experience
*Experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role
*Container native technologies and ecosystem experience
*The ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing business needs.
*Automation and DevOps practices
*Knowledge of tools like Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning
*Building continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for data engineering applications
*Using Docker and Kubernetes for packaging and deploying data engineering workloads
Key Requirements:Candidates must be SC cleared
How to Apply: If you’re interested in this role, click ’apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
Job Overview:
*Role: IT Specialist
*Location: Hybrid work – remote sometimes visit customer sites in Croydon or Manchester
*Contract: 1st June’26 – 1st Dec’26
*Mandatory check: SC Clearance
*Pay Rates: £485/day (via a Hays approved umbrella company).
*Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Key Responsibilities:
*Have strong experience of deploying, configuring, and managing the Dynatrace, Grafana or Splunk platforms to monitor applications, services, servers, networks, and cloud resources.
*Be proficient in collecting, processing, and analysing various telemetry signals (metrics, logs, traces, events)
*Ability to analyse telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks, availability risks, and system anomalies
*Ability to integrate Dynatrace, Grafana or Splunk with ITSM tools (such as ServiceNow) and CI/CD pipelines for proactive monitoring
*Have good problem-solving abilities with a systematic approach to diagnosing complex technical issues
*Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify patterns, and draw actionable conclusions
*Be involved in investigating incident response activities and postmortem analyses using Dynatrace, Grafana or provide insights.
*Has the ability to troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues on time, ensuring data integrity and reliability
*Have experience of scripting tools such as Python, PowerShell and CI/CD tools for automation
*Have good experience of using Cloud solutions such as Azure & AWS and containerized environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift) to implement cloud-native monitoring
*Have good knowledge of ITSM/incident management tools integration.
*Interacts with and influences colleagues and has working level contact with customers
*Applies methodical approach to issue definition and resolution
*Demonstrates effective application of knowledge
*Takes action to develop their own knowledge and represents this in their work
*Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Accreditations:
*Dynatrace Associate & Pro Certifications
*Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate
*Splunk Core Certified Power User
Desirable Skills:
*Cloud platforms experience
*Experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role
*Container native technologies and ecosystem experience
*The ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing business needs.
*Automation and DevOps practices
*Knowledge of tools like Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning
*Building continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for data engineering applications
*Using Docker and Kubernetes for packaging and deploying data engineering workloads
Key Requirements:Candidates must be SC cleared
How to Apply: If you’re interested in this role, click ’apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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