Senior Monitoring & Observability SME for Federal Systems

Acuity, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity, Inc. in Washington, DC, seeks a Monitoring & Observability SME to lead enterprise-grade observability initiatives for federal missions, deploying Splunk, SolarWinds, and OpenTelemetry across critical systems.

You will mentor architects, drive AIOps implementations to predict and prevent outages, and ensure compliance with NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and the DHS CDM while supporting ATO processes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in systems engineering and performance monitoring.
• 7+ years of deep expertise in log analytics, SIEM integration, or real-time telemetry.
• Recognized authority in observability with a record of solving complex mission-assurance problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level advisory on the deployment of large-scale Splunk or SolarWinds environments for federal missions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance monitoring gaps that impact agency-wide critical systems.
• Technical implementation of advanced AIOps models to predict and prevent system outages.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor for agency-level observability strategy and tool consolidation.
• Analyze existing monitoring architectures for coverage gaps and recommend remediation aligned with NIST standards.
• Mentor senior architects and engineers on advanced observability practices and telemetry standards.
• Support the federal Authority to Operate (ATO) process by providing technical evidence for continuous monitoring compliance.

Skills

Splunk

New Relic

SolarWinds

AppDynamics

SPL

KQL

SQL

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

Federated monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Acuity, Inc. in Washington, DC, seeks a Monitoring & Observability SME to lead enterprise-grade observability initiatives for federal missions, deploying Splunk, SolarWinds, and OpenTelemetry across critical systems.

You will mentor architects, drive AIOps implementations to predict and prevent outages, and ensure compliance with NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and the DHS CDM while supporting ATO processes.