Observability Pipeline / Cribl Engineer

Position Overview

We are seeking a senior Cribl Engineer to take ownership of our enterprise Cribl application infrastructure in Charlotte, NC. This position is a highly critical, project-driven role embedded directly within our monitoring and observability team. We require an in-house expert to lead a 6-month initiative focused on scaling, stabilizing, and optimizing our log routing pipelines and telemetry infrastructure. This role requires a hybrid schedule, working onsite at our Charlotte office twice a week.

Key Responsibilities

• : Act as the primary in-house technical resource and platform administrator for the Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge distributed architectures.
• : Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data processing pipelines for log routing, filtering, parsing, masking, and telemetry transformation.
• : Evaluate and tune worker node topologies, queue management, and memory allocations to ensure peak platform reliability and performance.
• : Manage the flow of raw machine data from various infrastructure endpoints and smoothly route them to internal targets (such as SIEM platforms, Splunk, Elastic, or cloud storage buckets).
• : Oversee configuration deployments utilizing Git/GitOps integrations on the Cribl Leader node, maintaining clean system backups, deployment patterns, and operational runbooks.

Core Requirements

• : Broad background specializing in massive scale machine data ingestion, SIEM pipelines, or systems monitoring architectures.
• : Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and troubleshooting Cribl distributed clusters (Leader and Worker nodes) in production environments.
• : Proficiency working with common data transport protocols and targets like Splunk, Kafka, Elasticsearch, or cloud-native monitoring hubs.
• : Strong foundational knowledge of Linux administration alongside automation tooling or scripting (Bash, Python, Git) to manipulate complex data payloads (JSON, KQL, etc.).
• : The capability to step up as the single point of contact for the Cribl environment, collaborating effectively with cross-functional system engineering and cloud teams.

Benefits

Pay

Pay Rate: $60.00 - $70.00 / hour

Schedule

Hybrid – 2 days onsite weekly