GovCIO · 23 hours ago
Data Warehousing Specialist (Network Engineer)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expGovCIO is currently hiring for a Data Warehousing Specialist (Network Engineer) of Infrastructure Operations. This role involves developing best practices for data management, optimizing the Cribl distributed infrastructure, and performing upgrades and maintenance on Splunk and Cribl systems.
ConsultingIT InfrastructureIT ManagementManagement Consulting
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop apply best practices and tools for data ingestion, indexing, and management to optimize data sources and refine data collection processes to capture only pertinent data
Plan and perform Cribl platform upgrades (Leader, Worker, and Edge nodes) following defined change control procedures
Manage and optimize the Cribl distributed infrastructure, ensuring scalability, stability, and efficient data routing
Continuously monitor Cribl performance, including throughput, queue depth, and worker health metrics
Develop and maintain Cribl pipelines for new data sources, implementing filtering, sampling, and enrichment logic
Migrate existing Splunk forwarder-based data inputs to Cribl for improved control and flexibility
Build and maintain Cribl Packs for standardized configurations across multiple environments
Implement data reduction and enhancement workflows to minimize ingestion volume and improve data quality
Maintain and enhance Ansible playbooks for automated deployments, configurations, and upgrades
Integrate GitOps CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform) to manage configuration-as-code for both Splunk and Cribl
Develop, test, and review merge requests related to dashboards, alerts, saved searches, and data onboarding pipelines
Perform Splunk core upgrades (indexers, search heads, cluster masters, deployers) ensuring backward compatibility and minimal downtime
Upgrade and validate Splunk Add-ons and Apps, maintaining functionality and CIM compliance
Develop and maintain custom props, transforms, eventtypes, and lookups to normalize data consistently
Ensure CIM compliance for all add-ons and sourcetypes used across the platform
Handle escalations from Operations and perform deep-dive troubleshooting on ingestion, parsing, or performance issues
Perform break/fix analysis on Splunk core services such as KVStore, clustering, deployment server, and scheduler
Conduct performance tuning for search optimization, bucket management, and scheduler balancing across SHC
Design and maintain retention, archival, and index management strategies to align with business and compliance goals
Manage license allocation, volume forecasting, and capacity planning across indexer clusters
Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting integrations for Cribl and Splunk infrastructure health
Collaborate with Operations on incident triage, root cause analysis, and postmortem documentation
Create and maintain runbooks and engineering guides for deployments, upgrades, and troubleshooting
Participate in architecture and design discussions to ensure Splunk and Cribl meet enterprise scaling and reliability needs
Implement security and compliance controls including token rotation, TLS configurations, and secret management via Vault or GCP Secret Manager
Perform disaster recovery testing and validate replication and failover processes across clusters
Collaborate with governance teams to align on data retention, anonymization, and privacy requirements
Support continuous improvement by analyzing ingestion efficiency, performance benchmarks, and automation opportunities
Lead knowledge-sharing sessions and technical handoffs with Operations for newly deployed features or pipelines
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's with 13+ years (or commensurate experience) OR Masters Degree or higher (in a related discipline) with 10 years
Skills in data warehousing and specifically processing of computer generated log data
Must be able to obtain and maintain AOUSC Public Trust
Preferred
Extensive experience with Cribl data engine
Benefits
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Corporate Discounts
Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
Training, Education and Certification Assistance*
Referral Bonus Program
Internal Mobility Program
Pet Insurance
Flexible Work Environment
Company
GovCIO
GovCIO is a business consulting firm that focuses on cyber security, digital, data, management and mission services, and IT services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Lynn Oakes
Sr. Vice President, Contracts at GovCIO
Andre Green
Vice President Special Operations Support Solutions (SOSS) GOVCIO
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