Cribl SME

ZealHire Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks a Cribl Certified Engineer (CCE) with recent hands-on Cribl Stream experience to join our observability team. You will design, deploy, and operate large-scale Cribl environments in production, and integrate telemetry with Elastic Stack.

The ideal candidate has strong RHEL admin skills, Python scripting, and infrastructure automation. You will troubleshoot pipelines, optimize performance, implement security hardening, and support disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Cribl Certified Engineer certification highly desirable.
• Experience with large-scale Cribl deployments and production environments.

Skills

Cribl Stream

RHEL administration

Python

Elastic Stack

REST APIs

Telemetry ingestion

High availability / DR

Git

Security hardening

RBAC

Tools

Elastic Stack

Cribl tooling

Kibana

Git

Job description

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).

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 (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), SIEM platforms and observability solutions.

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