Observability Engineer (Splunk)

Accenture Federal Services•Arlington, WA

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to help the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer, and to improve people's lives. Our team of over 13,000 individuals is dedicated to leveraging technology and innovation for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within the global Accenture network. We are recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering a supportive community where you can grow, learn, and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training. Become part of a team that drives positive, lasting change, advancing missions and the government forward.

Requirements

Experience with Splunk
Active Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required, depending on position.

Responsibilities

Engineer, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, deployment servers, etc.) to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability across all environments.
Partner with application, security, and operations teams to design and implement searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts that provide actionable insights and support incident response.
Design and implement data onboarding for new sources, including inputs, parsing, field extractions, data models, and normalization to ensure data quality and consistency.
Analyze and troubleshoot existing data pipelines to confirm data is being collected, parsed correctly, and providing value, while tracking and optimizing data volume to manage Splunk license consumption.
Monitor and maintain the health of the observability infrastructure, implementing automation where possible for deployment, configuration management, and routine maintenance.