IT Specialist
JOB_53952194799483Job type
ContractLocation
ManchesterWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Software DevelopmentIndustry
Technology & Internet ServicesPay
£485/day UMB (inside IR 35)
IT specialist (Hays contract) || Join a leading independent technology and services provider
Join 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.
IT SpecialistJOB_539521947994832026-05-222026-08-20
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