Observability Pipeline Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month 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, normalization, and data-flow anomaly detection.
- Instrument pipelines to detect silent sources, schema drift, volume anomalies, and cost anomalies.
- Design reduction, cardinality, retention, and masking strategies for cost control and sensitive-data protection.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience engineering telemetry, log, or event data pipelines at enterprise scale.
- Experience with telemetry routing tiers such as Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector, Vector, Fluent Bit, or Logstash, including schema design, parsing, normalization, reduction, and retention tiering.
- Experience with query languages such as SPL, DQL, LogQL, PromQL, or KQL, and the ability to learn new query languages.
- Experience managing data volume, cardinality, and cost under volume-based or consumption-based licensing.
- Experience managing configuration as code and infrastructure as code across multiple environments, including GitOps and Terraform.
- Production programming experience in a language such as Python, REST API experience, and Linux and Windows administration experience.
- Secret clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering.
- Preferred qualifications include OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline design, sensitive telemetry data handling, AI-assisted data engineering, DoD Azure or AWS IL5/IL6 environments, CIM-compliant data engineering, and relevant 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 and access to Booz Allen employee benefit programs for eligible full-time and part-time employees.
- Hybrid work in McLean, Virginia, with frequent Booz Allen facility attendance and possible customer-facility work or visits.
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).