Security clearance: Active UK DV clearance (essential)
Location: Corsham area (hybrid working - approx. 60% onsite / 40% remote)
Contract length: 6 months (initial)
Rate: Up to 700/day
IR35: Inside IR35
Start: ASAP (subject to onboarding)
Overview
We're looking for a DV Cleared Event Management Consultant to join a Hosting & Tooling team supporting a critical environment. You'll work across BAU and project activity, shaping event management policy, improving monitoring outcomes, and enhancing operational insight.
Key requirements (must-have)
Active UK DV clearance
BMC TrueSight Orchestration
Splunk
Enterprise Event Management experience
What you'll be doing
Liaising directly with stakeholder teams, providing guidance and support
Creating event management policies for internal services and distribution solutions
Delivering high-level functional analysis to support operational needs
Maintaining operational tooling in line with service deliverables
Supporting project tasks and working with project managers and engineers
Producing technical documentation and architecture diagrams
Building and maintaining operational dashboards to support service requirements
Experience & technical skills (ideal)
Strong background in enterprise monitoring/tooling (certifications beneficial)
Tooling experience including BMC TrueSight, BMC Discovery, and Splunk
Agent deployment and management
Tooling installation/configuration/customisation
SNMP / MIB management
Environments: Windows, AIX, Linux
Scripting/automation: Python and/or PowerShell
Monitoring exposure (beneficial): Zabbix, Nagios, SolarWinds, HP OpenView, Tivoli Monitoring/Netcool
Good grasp of networking concepts/protocols
Automation/integration using REST APIs
Splunk depth preferred, including:
Rule creation and advanced logic
SPL
SQL skills
Dashboard development
Important note on clearance
Candidates must already hold active UK DV clearance to be considered (sponsorship/upgrade is not available for this requirement).