Technical Intern

Description Leidos is seeking a Data Pipeline / Splunk Engineering Intern with a Computer Science, Data Science, or similar technical background to join our team in support of the SMIT contract, the largest IT services program for the U.S. Navy.Under the Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program, the Leidos team delivers the core backbone of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. The team supports the Navy in unifying enterprise data to improve operational visibility, reliability, and decision-making.The successful candidate will support data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines that feed Splunk dashboards and monitoring solutions used by network operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs), and executive leadership. This internship provides hands-on experience in data engineering, Python development, enterprise observability, and Agile delivery within a mission-critical environment.Primary ResponsibilitiesSupport development and maintenance of data pipelines that ingest, transform, and deliver data to Splunk and analytics platformsWrite and maintain Python scripts to process log, metric, and event dataAssist with data validation, normalization, and enrichment to improve data quality and usabilitySupport onboarding of new data sources from infrastructure, applications, and network systemsAssist with building dashboards and visualizations that consume pipeline-produced dataPerform analysis, trending, and exploratory data analysis to identify insights and anomaliesCollaborate with Splunk developers, SREs, and operations teams to understand data requirementsParticipate in Agile ceremonies including daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectivesContribute to backlog items, technical documentation, and process improvementsWork with a geographically distributed (remote) teamBasic QualificationsEnrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in Compu