Splunk Observability Engineer: Scale & Insight

Accenture Federal Services; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Splunk Engineer to design, configure, and optimize observability components across environments for mission-critical workloads.

You will partner with security and operations teams to build dashboards, enable data onboarding, and monitor data pipelines while ensuring license compliance and high availability. This role offers growth and structured development within a leading government technology partner.

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 in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Splunk Engineer to design, configure, and optimize observability components across environments for mission-critical workloads.

You will partner with security and operations teams to build dashboards, enable data onboarding, and monitor data pipelines while ensuring license compliance and high availability. This role offers growth and structured development within a leading government technology partner.