Observability/Splunk Engineer

Apavo Corporation • Reston, WA

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About The Position

Apavo, a woman-owned cybersecurity company supporting Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions, is hiring an Observability Engineer for an Intelligence Community customer. The role focuses on making new AI services visible, supportable, and accountable by building monitoring, audit, and reliability practices that enable operators to run the services with confidence.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 8+ years in observability, site reliability, or Splunk engineering.
• Hands-on Splunk or OpenSearch experience building searches, dashboards, and alerts.
• Experience supporting production incident response.

Nice To Haves

• OpenTelemetry experience.
• Splunk certification.
• Experience in classified environments.

Responsibilities

• Instrument services with traces, metrics, and logs, and integrate them with Splunk or similar platforms.
• Build dashboards and alerts, and correlate requests across services.
• Set retention and access controls on telemetry, and check telemetry for privacy and data leakage.
• Protect audit records against tampering and detect changes.
• Support incident response, define service-level objectives, run failure tests, and write operator runbooks.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance starting on the first day, with Apavo covering 90% effective January 1, 2027.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% employer match, starting January 1, 2027.
• 20 days of paid time off plus 11 paid federal holidays.
• Up to $3,000 a year in training and certification reimbursement.
• Parking reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed