Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Cribl

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize data pipelines for observability and security platforms
• Manage Cribl Stream / Edge deployments, enabling efficient log routing, transformation, and cost optimization
• Provide 24x7 operational support for Cribl Stream infrastructure and data pipelines (24x7 on-call rotation every 6th week)
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data ingestion, routing, and transformation issues
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and documentation for operational processes
• Support on-call rotations and escalation processes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years in Information Technology or relevant experience OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 years Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience
• Experience with CRIBL pipeline development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail oriented, effective interpersonal skills
• Strong organization skills and problem-solving ability
• Attention to detail and technical documentation skills
• Experience with windows, Linux, CentOS and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Experience with data ingest, ETL techniques preferable Logstash and Beats
• Experience with multi-node clustering, architecture, development, implementation, and health monitoring of the indexes
• Knowledge of hot/warm/cold data/index lifecycle management implementations
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch Management, reindexing and data mappings, JSON and KQL searching syntax, and Kibana dashboard options
• Experience with automated configuration management tool and playbooks (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, blade logic etc) and (Docker) containers, and GitHub
• Experience with cloud infrastructure preferably Azure
• Excellent communication, and relationship skills to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among stakeholders.

Hard Skills

• data pipelines
• CRIBL pipeline development
• ETL techniques
• multi-node clustering
• Elasticsearch Management
• KQL searching syntax
• automated configuration management
• Docker
• cloud infrastructure
• GitHub

Soft Skills

• written communication
• verbal communication
• interpersonal skills
• organization skills
• problem-solving
• attention to detail
• technical documentation

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Technical Certification

Industry Keywords

• observability
• security platforms
• data ingestion
• index lifecycle management
• cost optimization
• health monitoring
• SOPs
• runbooks
• on-call rotation
• stakeholder consensus

Tools & Technologies

• Cribl Stream
• Windows
• Linux
• CentOS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Logstash
• Beats
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet