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🛡️ Job Title: Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations (Logging & Monitoring)
📍 Location: Round Rock, TX (Onsite/Hybrid)
📅 Duration: 18 Months Contract
🔍 About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Logging & Monitoring Engineer to play a key role in designing, operating, and optimizing enterprise-scale observability and security telemetry platforms. This is a highly hands-on role requiring deep expertise in Cribl, Elastic (ELK), and network telemetry tools like Corelight.
You will work on building reliable data pipelines, troubleshooting complex logging issues, and improving performance and resilience across distributed environments. This role also provides an opportunity to mentor engineers and contribute to platform standards and best practices.
🚀 Key Responsibilities
- Design and optimize log and telemetry pipelines using Cribl, including routing, transformations, and enrichment
- Engineer and support Elastic (ELK) platforms, including ingestion pipelines, performance tuning, and index lifecycle management
- Support and enhance Corelight (NDR) deployments, including sensor operations and data validation
- Troubleshoot complex logging issues across ingestion, transport, parsing, and storage layers
- Lead platform lifecycle activities such as upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning
- Own log onboarding for new applications and infrastructure systems
- Establish and improve standards, patterns, and best practices for observability platforms
- Act as a technical escalation point during incidents and maintenance windows
- Mentor and guide junior/mid-level engineers
🎯 Required Qualifications
- 5–7 years of experience in logging, monitoring, or security telemetry platforms
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Cribl (pipeline design, tuning, troubleshooting)
- Elastic / ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Experience with network telemetry or NDR tools (Corelight, Zeek, or similar)
- Strong Linux and Windows system administration skills
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Shell scripting
- Experience working in large-scale, cloud, or distributed environments
- Strong understanding of:
- Log ingestion pipelines
- Data flow, throughput, latency, and retention
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with high-volume log ingestion (GBs/TBs per day)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives