Cribl Application Support Engineer

Req ID: 392147 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Cribl Application Support Engineer to join our team in Frisco, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Provide L2/L3 production support/administration for the Cribl platform, primarily Cribl Stream.
• Monitor Cribl Leader Nodes, Worker Nodes, Worker Groups, Sources, Destinations, Routes, Pipelines, and overall platform health.
• Troubleshoot Cribl application/service failures, data-flow issues, and connectivity problems.
• Investigate issues where logs/events are not received, delayed, dropped, incorrectly routed, or not reaching the target destination.
• Configure and troubleshoot Sources, Destinations, Routes, Pipelines, Packs, and Functions.
• Perform Cribl service start/stop, configuration changes, deployments, maintenance, and health checks.
• Investigate alerts and production incidents using Cribl logs, monitoring dashboards, and OS logs.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for recurring or critical incidents.
• Support Cribl installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
• Troubleshoot issues across Linux/Unix servers, network connectivity, filesystem, CPU, memory, disk space, and system resources.
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP, DNS, ports, firewall, certificates, SSL/TLS, and source-to-destination connectivity issues.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data throughput, queues, backpressure, and performance-related issues.
• Support integrations between Cribl and enterprise platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Kafka, Syslog, Microsoft Sentinel, AWS, Azure, and other SIEM/observability platforms.
• Write and maintain Shell/Python scripts for monitoring, health checks, log analysis, reporting, and operational automation.
• Use Regex, JSON, and JavaScript for log parsing, filtering, transformation, enrichment, and troubleshooting where required.
• Handle incident/change/problem/service-request tickets using ITSM processes.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, operational documentation, and knowledge articles.
• Participate in on-call/production support and major incident troubleshooting as required.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, security, SIEM/observability, and application teams for issue resolution.
• Coordinate with Cribl/vendor support for complex product-level issues.

Minimum Requirements

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Cribl Stream administration and production support.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting Sources, Destinations, Routes, Pipelines and Packs.
• Understanding of Cribl Leader and Worker architecture and Worker Group management.
• Experience with Splunk and/or Elastic Stack.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Syslog, REST APIs and HTTP-based integrations.
• Experience with AWS/Azure logging and monitoring services.
• Knowledge of log-management, SIEM, observability, and security-monitoring concepts.
• Experience troubleshooting high-volume log/data ingestion environments.
• Experience with Git/version-control concepts.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools.
• Understanding of high availability, capacity management, and disaster-recovery concepts.

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $78,948 – 137,063. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. 

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

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