Cribl Application Support Engineer

Position: Cribl Application Support EngineerLocation: Charlotte/ Dallas/ New JerseyDuration: 12+ months Contract Job Role: Client is a major financial services organization, this role focuses heavily on data routing efficiency, compliance, system auditing, and optimizing SIEM/observability costsJob Responsibilities:Platform Administration: Provide L2/L3 production support, monitoring, and administration for the Cribl Stream platform. This includes supervising Cribl Leader Nodes, Worker Nodes, Worker Groups, and overall infrastructure health.Data Pipeline Optimization: Configure and troubleshoot data Sources, Destinations, Routes, Pipelines, Packs, and Functions to ensure telemetry data flows seamlessly.Incident & Bottleneck Management: Investigate dropped, delayed, or misrouted logs. Troubleshoot ingestion bottlenecks and connectivity failures to maintain high reliability and system compliance.CI/CD & Automation Governance: Build and maintain automated pipelines for Cribl configuration deployments using Git-based workflows. Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and strict change management patterns that align with banking audit requirements.Cross-Platform Integration: Partner closely with Cybersecurity, DevOps, and Platform teams to route data effectively into enterprise destinations like Splunk or cloud environments.Required Technical Skills & Qualifications:Cribl Expertise: Hands-on experience architecting, deploying, or supporting Cribl Stream (Cribl Certified Observability Engineer / CCOE credentials are highly preferred), Cribl Edge and Cribl Search.SIEM & Observability Tools: Splunk Enterprise / Splunk ES (Strong background in target logging platforms)Operating Systems & Scripting: Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix OS logs, system administration, and automation scripting.DevOps & Infrastructure: Familiarity with Git workflows, CI/CD deployment pipelines, and cloud provider environments (like AWS).Financial Sector Compliance: Understanding of strict enterprise change controls, data security, and audit trail retention.