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# HPC Monitoring & Observability Engineer

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $255,000.0 - $265,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Continuous Integration, Linux, Perl (Programming Language), Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Message Broker, Performance Tuning, Ansible, Software Engineering, Syslog, Git, Gitlab-ci, Atlassian Tools, Apache Kafka, ArcSight Event Correlation, Splunk, Software Version Control
- **Published:** June 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8980977/hpc-monitoring-observability-engineer

## About the Role

* 12 years of experience as a software engineer
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
 + 2 additional years of experience as a software engineer may be substituted for a degree, * In this position, the Software Engineer must be proficient with Splunk.

Required Experience:

 * Experience using the Linux CLI and the Linux suite of tools
 * Experience developing Shell/Perl scripts to automate manual processes
 * Recent software development experience using Python
 * Experience with Splunk SPL, dashboard creation, and report development
 * Experience with Splunk data onboarding, field extractions, data models, and performance tuning
 * Experience with Splunk alerting, incident management workflows, and event correlation
 * Familiar interfacing with Log Management tools including Syslog-ng and rsyslog
 * Familiar Message Brokers such as Kafka
 * Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools including Ansible
 * Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI
 * Experience with Git Source Control System

Desired Experience:

 * Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)

## Description

* The Software Engineer shall be part of a team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a comprehensive distributed Metrics and Monitoring solution for HPC systems to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of HPC infrastructure.


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