Senior Cribl Observability Architect

Scalis LLC; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cinteot Inc. is seeking a senior Cribl Engineer to act as the principal technical authority for observability pipelines built on Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. You will shape pipeline strategy, design complex routing and transformation logic, and drive platform reliability.

You will mentor senior engineers, lead architectural decisions, and interface with security, cloud, and analytics teams to ensure robust logging and telemetry across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Senior level experience in logging, observability, or SIEM engineering.
• Architecting enterprise-scale log/telemetry pipelines for large data volumes.
• Hands-on production experience with Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge.
• Proven ability to scale pipelines to multi TB per day.
• Expert in Splunk forwarding/ingestion and indexing practices.
• Strong knowledge of transport protocols (HTTP/TCP/TLS/MTLS), Kafka, and object storage (S3).
• Experience designing secure data flows with RBAC, secrets management, encryption, and governance controls.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical decision making.
• Cribl Certified Engineer or equivalent Cribl product expertise.
• DoD 8570.01-M certifications or willingness to obtain within 30 days of hire.
• TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for Cribl Stream/Edge across multiple enclaves and data domains.
• Build high-throughput pipelines with advanced routing, filtering, enrichment, and replay workflows.
• Optimize system performance, worker topology, queue management, and transport mechanisms.
• Engineer secure data flows with masking, RBAC, PKI/TLS, and governance controls.
• Integrate pipelines with SIEM/analytics ecosystems (Splunk, Elastic, cloud services).
• Develop HA/DR patterns, reliability metrics, and failure mode procedures.
• Maintain reusable Cribl packs, patterns, and runbooks.
• Serve as senior escalation point for Cribl issues and liaise with vendor engineers.
• Mentor engineers and conduct design reviews to enforce standards.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, analytics, and infra teams on logging strategy.

Skills

Cribl Stream

Cribl Edge

Logging

Observability

SIEM

Enterprise pipelines

Mentoring

Security certifications

IAT II

IAT III

CSSP Infrastructure

TS/SCI with Polygraph

CCNP Security

CCOE

Tools

Splunk

Kafka

S3

TLS/MTLS

HTTP

Job description

Cinteot Inc. is seeking a senior Cribl Engineer to act as the principal technical authority for observability pipelines built on Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. You will shape pipeline strategy, design complex routing and transformation logic, and drive platform reliability.

You will mentor senior engineers, lead architectural decisions, and interface with security, cloud, and analytics teams to ensure robust logging and telemetry across enterprise environments.