Cribl Engineer

About the role

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

Cribl Engineer

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Cribl Engineer to support service delivery to join the Visibility Analytics and Automation Team (VAAT). This role will play a crucial role in building, managing, and optimizing our enterprise data pipelines, with a strong focus on feeding our downstream SIEM ecosystem. The primary focus will be designing and maintaining routing, filtering, and transformation logic using Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge. If you are passionate about logging, SIEM architecture, and solving complex data ingestion challenges, we would love to have you on the team.

No Prior Experience with Automated Security Validation Required: While experience with Mandiant Security Validation Tool would be great, we'll train you on the tool if you have a solid foundation in cybersecurity. We're vendor neutral security engineers providing services that meet customer needs, not our own or that of vendors.

About the Federal Region

GuidePoint Security is the trusted partner that defense and civilian government agencies rely on to lead their cybersecurity efforts and protect their organizations. We help solve their most complex security challenges, mature security architectures, and proactively reduce risk. Our purpose-built solutions ensure compliance, safeguard critical assets, and align security with organizational objectives. Backed by deep expertise, strong partnerships, and advanced technologies, we deliver scalable, adaptive capabilities that evolve with the threat landscape so Federal agencies can lead with confidence and protect what’s next.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Pipeline Development: Build, maintain, and optimize high-throughput data pipelines using Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge to ensure efficient data routing, masking, and transformation.

- Data Integration & Schema Mapping: Normalize incoming log sources to standardized schemas (e.g., CIM, ECS) before routing to downstream SIEM platforms, analytics tools, and storage.

- Engineering Support: Implement complex routing logic, data masking, enrichment, and replay workflows, utilizing custom JavaScript functions and Regex patterns directly within Cribl pipelines.

- System Optimization: Monitor system health, assist in managing worker topology, and troubleshoot bottlenecks or failures in the data flow.

- Automation: Utilize scripting (Python, Bash) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) to automate deployment and configuration management.

- Documentation: Maintain clear and accurate technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for the observability infrastructure.