Senior Cribl Engineer — Observability & Data Pipelines (TS/SCI)

Disruptive Solutions, LLC; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Disruptive Solutions, LLC in Reston, VA seeks an experienced Cribl Engineer to serve as the principal technical authority for observability pipelines built on Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. You will shape pipeline strategy, design complex routing, and act as escalation point for critical issues.

You will lead architecture across multiple data domains, build high-throughput pipelines, and optimize performance while ensuring secure data flows and governance.

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 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 DoD 8570 certifications within 30 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for Cribl Stream/Edge across multiple enclaves and data domains.
• Build high throughput pipelines (multiTB/day) with advanced routing, filtering, enrichment, and replay workflows.
• Optimize system performance, worker topology, CPU/memory distribution, queues, and transport mechanisms.
• Engineer secure data flows with masking, tokenization, RBAC, PKI/TLS, and other governance controls.
• Integrate pipelines with SIEM/analytics ecosystems (Splunk, Elastic, SaaS telemetry platforms, cloud services).

Skills

SIEM engineering

Log/telemetry pipelines

Cribl Stream/Edge

Pipeline scalability

Splunk

Networking (HTTP/TCP/TLS)

Data security

Mentoring

Cribl Certified Engineer

DoD 8570 readiness

Cloud telemetry

Observability frameworks

Job description

Disruptive Solutions, LLC in Reston, VA seeks an experienced Cribl Engineer to serve as the principal technical authority for observability pipelines built on Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. You will shape pipeline strategy, design complex routing, and act as escalation point for critical issues.

You will lead architecture across multiple data domains, build high-throughput pipelines, and optimize performance while ensuring secure data flows and governance.