Observability/Splunk Engineer in Bathesda, Virginia at Apavo Corporation

About Apavo

Apavo is a woman-owned cybersecurity company supporting Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions. We're a small, dedicated team where your expertise is valued and your work directly supports national security.

About the Role

Apavo is hiring an Observability Engineer to make new AI services visible, supportable, and accountable for an Intelligence Community customer. You'll build the monitoring, audit, and reliability practices that let operators run these services with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Instrument services with traces, metrics, and logs, and integrate them with Splunk or similar platforms.
• Build dashboards and alerts, and correlate requests across services.
• Set retention and access controls on telemetry, and check it for privacy and data leakage.
• Protect audit records against tampering and detect changes.
• Support incident response, define service-level objectives, run failure tests, and write operator runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 8+ years in observability, site reliability, or Splunk engineering.
• Hands-on Splunk or OpenSearch experience building searches, dashboards, and alerts.
• Experience supporting production incident response.

Preferred Qualifications

• OpenTelemetry experience.
• Splunk certification.
• Experience in classified environments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance starting on your first day, with Apavo covering 90% effective January 1, 2027.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% employer match, starting January 1, 2027.
• 20 days of paid time off plus 11 paid federal holidays.
• Up to $3,000 a year in training and certification reimbursement.
• Parking reimbursement.

Apavo is an Equal Opportunity Employer.