Splunk Observability Engineer for Federal Systems

Accenture Federal Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 81,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Splunk engineer to optimize components, partner with security and operations teams to design searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts that support incident response. You will implement data onboarding for new sources, ensure data quality, and track data volume across environments.

Role requires working with an observability infrastructure team, maintaining health, and automating deployment and configuration tasks.

Qualifications

• Experience with Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, deployment servers, etc.) to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability across all environments
• Partner with application, security, and operations teams to design and implement searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts that provide actionable insights and support incident response.
• Design and implement data onboarding for new sources, including inputs, parsing, field ex­tractions, data models, and normalization to ensure data quality and consistency
• Analyze and troubleshoot existing data pipelines to confirm data is being collected, parsed correctly, and providing value, while tracking and optimizing data volume to manage Splunk license consumption
• Monitor and maintain the health of the observability infrastructure, implementing automation where possible for deployment, configuration management, and routine maintenance

Skills

Splunk

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Splunk engineer to optimize components, partner with security and operations teams to design searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts that support incident response. You will implement data onboarding for new sources, ensure data quality, and track data volume across environments.

Role requires working with an observability infrastructure team, maintaining health, and automating deployment and configuration tasks.