GuidePoint Security
Cribl Engineer
D.C., MD, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 11, 2026
- Location
- D.C., MD, VA
Federal - Experience
- 3–5 years in IT focused on logging, observability, or SIEM engineering; 2–5 years with Cribl Stream and/or Cribl Edge in production; 2+ years administering or engineering enterprise SIEM environments. Education-specific IT project experience alternatives are listed in the requirements.
- Education
- HS diploma or GED, associate’s, bachelor’s, or master’s degree, each with the corresponding experience alternative stated in the posting.
About the job
Build and operate Cribl-based data pipelines that normalize, transform, and route logs to downstream SIEM and analytics platforms for federal customers.
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, and optimize pipelines using Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, including routing, masking, enrichment, and transformation.
- Integrate and normalize log sources to schemas such as CIM and ECS, and troubleshoot pipeline and worker performance.
- Automate deployment and configuration, and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
What they ask for
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph exam.
- 3–5 years of IT experience focused on logging, observability, or SIEM engineering; 2–5 years operating Cribl Stream and/or Cribl Edge pipelines in production; and 2+ years administering or engineering enterprise SIEM environments.
- Meet one of the stated education-and-experience combinations: HS diploma or GED plus 7+ years; associate’s degree plus 5+ years; bachelor’s degree plus 3+ years; or master’s degree plus 1+ years supporting IT projects and activities.
- Active Cribl Certification; ability to obtain a DoD 8570.01-M CSSP-IS certification within 30 days of offer acceptance and a DoD 8570 IAT Level III certification within the stated deadline.
Nice to have
- Relevant enterprise SIEM administrator or engineering certifications.
- Knowledge of data security fundamentals, Linux/Unix, transport protocols, data formats, Regex, JavaScript, and log schema formats.
Tools
Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, JavaScript, Regex, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform
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