Observability Pipeline Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and events across accredited environments.
- Engineer Splunk distributed architecture, index design, data onboarding, and search performance.
- Automate source onboarding and manage pipeline configuration as code through GitOps and Terraform.
- Apply AI tooling to parser generation, schema mapping, and normalization.
- Detect silent sources, schema drift, and volume or cost anomalies before downstream impact.
- Design reduction, cardinality, retention, and masking strategies to control costs and protect sensitive data.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience engineering enterprise-scale telemetry, log, or event data pipelines.
- Experience with Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector, Vector, Fluent Bit, Logstash, or comparable telemetry routing tiers.
- Experience with query languages such as SPL, DQL, LogQL, PromQL, or KQL.
- Experience managing data volume, cardinality, retention, and cost under consumption-based licensing.
- Experience with configuration as code, GitOps, and Terraform across multiple environments.
- Production programming experience in a language such as Python, REST API development, and Linux and Windows administration.
- Ability to learn new query languages.
- Secret clearance is required.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering.
- Preferred experience includes OpenTelemetry Collector processors, sensitive-data masking, AI-assisted data engineering, DoD Azure or AWS IL5/IL6 environments, CIM-compliant data engineering, and Cribl or Splunk certifications.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for applicable benefit programs.
- Remote, hybrid, or onsite work arrangements follow role-specific expectations and may require work at Booz Allen or customer facilities.
- The position is full-time or part-time as applicable; the posting does not state a contract duration.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).