Location: Reston VA, Anacostia or College Park, MD
Required Qualifications- 10+ years of experience in logging, observability, or SIEM engineering.
- 5+ years architecting enterprise scale log/telemetry pipelines.
- 3+ years hands-on with Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge in production environments.
- Demonstrated success operating and scaling pipelines at 5-10+ TB/day.
- Expert-level experience with Splunk forwarding/ingestion, source type management, and indexing practices.
- Strong Linux fundamentals; scripting expertise (Python/Bash); Git; automation (Ansible/Terraform).
- Strong understanding of transport protocols (HTTP, TCP, TLS/MTLS), Kafka, S3/object storage.
- Experience designing secure data flows, including encryption, RBAC, secrets management, and compliance controls.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and lead technical decision making.
- Certified Cribl Certified Engineer (CCOE) or equivalent Cribl product expertise.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III Certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+), CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH, CCSP certification within 30 days of start date.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP-IS), including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification, within 30 days of start date.
Preferred Qualifications- Expertise creating and maintaining Cribl Packs and reusable pipelines.
- Experience with cloud telemetry (AWS, Azure, hybrid) and cross-domain data movement patterns.
- Familiarity with NIST / CIS control frameworks and secure engineering practices.
- Experience building observability frameworks for large distributed systems.
- Vendor engagement experience (Cribl PS, product teams, troubleshooting escalations).
