Title: CRIBL Subject Matter Expert Engineer
Location: Richmond VA
Duration: 1 year initial contract duration
Cribl Certified Engineer (CCE) certification highly desirable and must have recent, substantial hands-on as CRIBL SME.
Skill Requirements
Required Experience:
5+ years of experience in infrastructure, observability, or data engineering.
Minimum 2+ years of hands-on Cribl Stream engineering experience in production environments (3–5 years preferred).
Experience supporting large-scale, distributed enterprise Cribl deployments.
Required Technical Skills:
Strong expertise in Cribl Stream architecture, distributed deployments, worker groups, pipelines, sources, destinations, and routing.
Experience administering large-scale Cribl environments with multiple worker groups.
Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with Syslog, TCP/UDP, HTTP, REST APIs, JSON, and Elastic integrations.
Expertise in telemetry ingestion, parsing, filtering, transformation, enrichment, and pipeline optimization.
Experience with high availability, load balancing, performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
Ability to troubleshoot worker connectivity, pipeline failures, backpressure, and telemetry delivery issues.
Proficiency in Python, Git, and infrastructure automation.
Knowledge of TLS, PKI, RBAC, security hardening, and enterprise change management.
Experience integrating Cribl with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), SIEM platforms, and observability solutions.
Preferred Certification:
Cribl Certified Engineer (CCE)
