AI-Driven Observability Pipeline Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA is seeking an Observability Pipeline Engineer to own the telemetry feeding logging, monitoring, and security analytics across commercial and government environments.

You will build and evolve the telemetry pipeline using Cribl and Splunk, automate source onboarding as code (GitOps), and apply AI tooling to parser/schema work to reduce manual effort while detecting failures before downstream systems are impacted.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating high-volume telemetry pipelines in production.
• Background in data engineering, log platforms, SIEM, or observability infrastructure.
• Experience automating source onboarding as code and applying tooling to parser/schema work.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the telemetry pipeline that carries logs, metrics, and events across environments.
• Engineer the Splunk log platform from architecture to onboarding and search performance.
• Automate source onboarding end-to-end so sources are added via code (GitOps).
• Apply AI tooling to parser generation, schema mapping, and normalization.
• Instrument the pipeline to detect failures, anomalies, and cost signals before downstream impact.
• Design data retention, reduction, and cardinality considerations.

Skills

Observability pipelines

Cribl

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

GitOps

AI tooling

Data engineering

SIEM

Logging

Monitoring

Tools

Cribl

Splunk

GitOps tooling

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA is seeking an Observability Pipeline Engineer to own the telemetry feeding logging, monitoring, and security analytics across commercial and government environments.

You will build and evolve the telemetry pipeline using Cribl and Splunk, automate source onboarding as code (GitOps), and apply AI tooling to parser/schema work to reduce manual effort while detecting failures before downstream systems are impacted.