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.