Splunk Core Consultant – DV Cleared

Location: UK (Hybrid / Client Site Visits Required)
Security Clearance: Developed Vetting (DV) – must be active
Salary: Dependent on experience

The Opportunity

Tektora is working with a specialist defence consultancy delivering high-assurance data, security, and operational intelligence solutions across sensitive UK government and defence programmes. We are seeking a DV-cleared Splunk Core Consultant to support mission-critical environments, working closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This role will involve client travel and on-site engagement, working within highly secure environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and optimise Splunk Core solutions in secure, high-availability environments
Develop dashboards, searches, alerts, and reports to support operational intelligence and security use cases
Ingest and normalise data from multiple sources across complex infrastructure estates
Support Splunk platform health, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
Engage directly with defence and government stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Contribute to documentation, knowledge transfer, and secure delivery best practice

Required Experience

Active DV clearance
Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Core (deployment, configuration, administration).
Experience working within defence, government, or other high-assurance environments.
Solid understanding of Splunk, networking, and log/data pipelines.
Comfortable working on client sites and in secure facilities.

Desirable

Splunk certifications (Core Certified User).
Exposure to SIEM, SOC, or security monitoring environments.
Experience integrating Splunk with cloud or hybrid platform.

If you hold active DV clearance and want to apply your Splunk expertise within some of the UK’s most sensitive defence environments, we’d like to hear from you.
Apply via Tektora to discuss the role confidentially and explore how your experience aligns with this programme.

Splunk Core Consultant (DV)