Observability Pipeline​/Cribl Engineer

Observability Pipeline / Cribl Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid – 2 days onsite weekly)

Duration: 6 Months Contract + Extensions

Pay Rate: $60.00 - $70.00 / hour W2

Eligibility Requirements: Strict W2 Only. No Corp-to-Corp (C2C), third parties, or W2 referrals will be accepted.

We are seeking a senior Cribl Engineer to take ownership of our enterprise Cribl application infrastructure in Charlotte, NC. This position is a highly critical, project-driven role embedded directly within our monitoring and observability team. We require an in-house expert to lead a 6‑month initiative focused on scaling, stabilizing, and optimizing our log routing pipelines and telemetry infrastructure.

This role requires a hybrid schedule, working onsite at our Charlotte office twice a week.

• Application Ownership: Act as the primary in-house technical resource and platform administrator for the Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge distributed architectures.

• Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data processing pipelines for log routing, filtering, parsing, masking, and telemetry transformation.

• Platform Stabilization & Sizing: Evaluate and tune worker node topologies, queue management, and memory allocations to ensure peak platform reliability and performance.

• Ecosystem Integration: Manage the flow of raw machine data from various infrastructure endpoints and smoothly route them to internal targets (such as SIEM platforms, Splunk, Elastic, or cloud storage buckets).

• Version Control & Runbooks: Oversee configuration deployments utilizing Git/Git Ops integrations on the Cribl Leader node, maintaining clean system backups, deployment patterns, and operational runbooks.

• 4+ Years of Observability & Log Engineering
  
  Experience:
  
  Broad background specializing in massive scale machine data ingestion, SIEM pipelines, or systems monitoring architectures.

• Deep Cribl Expertise: Hands‑on experience architecting, managing, and troubleshooting Cribl distributed clusters (Leader and Worker nodes) in production environments.

• Log Management Familiarity: Proficiency working with common data transport protocols and targets like Splunk, Kafka, Elasticsearch, or cloud‑native monitoring hubs.

• Linux & Automation Scripting: Strong foundational knowledge of Linux administration alongside automation tooling or scripting (Bash, Python, Git) to manipulate complex data payloads (JSON, KQL, etc.).

• Strong Communication: The capability to step up as the single point of contact for the Cribl environment, collaborating effectively with cross‑functional system engineering and cloud teams.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay