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Principal Cribl Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions, LLC

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Washington, DC
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph
Career Level not specified
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Job Description

is seeking a cleared to support a critical national security mission across multiple customer locations including This is a senior-level engineering opportunity for a highly experienced technical leader who will serve as the principal authority for observability pipelines built on Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. The ideal candidate will drive enterprise-scale logging and telemetry strategies, lead platform architecture, and support mission-critical data engineering and security operations environments.


  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge solutions across multiple enclaves and data domains.
  • Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry pipelines processing multi-terabyte daily workloads with advanced routing, filtering, enrichment, and replay capabilities.
  • Optimize platform performance, worker topology, CPU and memory utilization, queue management, and transport mechanisms.
  • Engineer secure data flows utilizing masking, tokenization, RBAC, PKI/TLS, and other governance and compliance controls.
  • Integrate Cribl pipelines with SIEM and analytics platforms including Splunk, Elastic, cloud services, and SaaS telemetry ecosystems.
  • Develop and implement high-availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), reliability frameworks, health monitoring, and incident response processes.
  • Create and maintain reusable Cribl Packs, engineering standards, operational runbooks, and best practices.
  • Serve as the senior escalation point for complex Cribl-related issues and coordinate with vendor engineering teams as needed.
  • Conduct technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and establish engineering excellence across the organization.
  • Collaborate with security, cloud, infrastructure, and analytics teams to define observability and telemetry strategies.


  • 10+ years of experience in logging, observability, SIEM, or related engineering disciplines.
  • 5+ years of experience architecting and implementing enterprise-scale log and telemetry pipelines.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge in production environments.
  • Demonstrated success scaling and operating observability platforms processing 5-10+ TB of data per day.
  • Expert-level experience with Splunk ingestion, forwarding, indexing, and source type management.
  • Strong Linux administration skills and scripting expertise using Python and Bash.
  • Experience with Git, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
  • Strong understanding of transport protocols including HTTP, TCP, TLS/mTLS, Kafka, and S3/object storage architectures.
  • Experience designing secure data solutions utilizing encryption, secrets management, RBAC, and compliance-based controls.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making.
  • Cribl Certified Engineer (CCOE) certification or equivalent advanced Cribl expertise.
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph required.


  • (Security+ CE, CCNA Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND), or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.
  • (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, or GCIH), or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.


  • Expertise building and maintaining reusable Cribl Packs and standardized pipelines.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud environments, and cross-domain data movement architectures.
  • Knowledge of NIST, CIS Controls, and secure engineering best practices.
  • Experience designing observability frameworks for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Previous engagement with Cribl Professional Services, product teams, and vendor escalation processes.


  • Compensation:
  • Full Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), PTO, Paid Holidays, and additional company-sponsored benefits.



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Zachary Piper Solutions is a National Security focused technology services and consulting firm with a top-secret facility clearance. We support mission-critical initiatives on behalf of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of State, and a variety of Civilian Agencies. ZPS is dedicated to help protect government networks against cyber threats and to maximize the wide-spectrum of intelligence and security-related technologies. Our dedicated support and proven experience drive results in support of our client’s mission objectives.
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