Cribl Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a talented and motivated mid-level Cribl Engineer to join our Visibility Analytics and Automation Team (VAAT). In this role, you will play a crucial role in building, managing, and optimizing our enterprise data pipelines, with a strong focus on feeding our downstream SIEM ecosystem. Your primary focus will be designing and maintaining routing, filtering, and transformation logic using Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize high-throughput data pipelines using Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge to ensure efficient data routing, masking, and transformation.
• Normalize incoming log sources to standardized schemas such as CIM and ECS before routing to downstream SIEM platforms, analytics tools, and storage.
• Implement complex routing logic, data masking, enrichment, and replay workflows, utilizing custom JavaScript functions and Regex patterns directly within Cribl pipelines.
• Monitor system health, assist in managing worker topology, and troubleshoot bottlenecks or failures in the data flow.
• Utilize scripting including Python or Bash and infrastructure-as-code tools including Ansible or Terraform to automate deployment and configuration management.
• Maintain clear and accurate technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for the observability infrastructure.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology, focusing on logging, observability, or SIEM engineering.
• 2+ years of experience operating and managing data pipelines with Cribl Stream or Cribl Edge in a production environment.
• 2+ years of experience administering or engineering enterprise SIEM environments.
• Knowledge of log forwarding, indexing, data collection, search architecture, source types, and ingestion-time parsing.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• HS diploma or GED and 7+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities, or Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience, or Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience, or Master’s degree and 1+ years of experience.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III Certification (e.g., SecurityX, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, or CCSP) within 60 days of start date.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP-IS) (e.g., CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND) within 30 days of start date.
• Cribl Certification such as Cribl Certified Observability Engineer (CCOE).

Skills

• Experience with Linux or Unix administration.
• Experience writing complex Regular Expressions (Regex) for pattern matching, data extraction, and log parsing.
• Experience using JavaScript within Cribl's native execution environment to write custom functions, execute advanced data transformations, and manipulate JSON or event payloads inside pipelines.
• Knowledge of transport protocols including HTTP, TCP, and TLS and data formats including JSON and Syslog.
• Knowledge of data security fundamentals, including encryption, RBAC, and data masking strategies.
• Knowledge of log normalization concepts and schema alignment, specifically Common Information Model (CIM) or frameworks such as ECS or OCSF.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• Enterprise SIEM administrator or engineering certifications.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of company values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.

Work model expectations:

• Remote: Generally remote, with occasional in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: Frequent work from a Booz Allen facility, with potential visits to customer facilities as required by the role.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, with direct collaboration as required by the role.

Employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings to support engagement and effective communication.