Job Description
Team: IT
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Syslog Engineer in India.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly technical engineering professional to design and optimize large-scale log ingestion and syslog infrastructure within a fast-paced cybersecurity environment.
You will play a critical role in building scalable, resilient, and high-performance logging pipelines capable of handling massive event volumes with reliability and precision.
The role combines deep expertise in syslog-ng, SIEM integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and distributed data pipeline engineering.
You will collaborate with security operations, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure efficient log routing, normalization, and ingestion across enterprise systems.
The position offers strong exposure to modern security analytics environments, streaming architectures, and large-scale event processing technologies.
Ideal for engineers passionate about systems performance, reliability, and security data engineering, this opportunity provides the chance to contribute directly to advanced cybersecurity operations at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Design, implement, and optimize high-throughput syslog-ng configurations and log ingestion architectures.
- Develop advanced filtering, routing, and parsing logic to improve log quality, normalization, and noise reduction.
- Monitor and optimize pipeline performance related to CPU usage, memory consumption, throughput, buffering, and latency.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient syslog infrastructures capable of processing high event-per-second (EPS) workloads.
- Troubleshoot ingestion issues including message loss, duplication, out-of-order events, backpressure, and network-related failures.
- Optimize buffering, batching, flow control, and disk-based queue management mechanisms within syslog-ng environments.
- Collaborate with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, ELK, or QRadar to ensure seamless data ingestion and integration.
- Implement best practices for structured and unstructured log parsing, secure syslog transmission, and protocol compliance.
- Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance validation for enterprise-scale logging systems.
- Develop reusable test frameworks, standards, documentation, and configuration guidelines for syslog environments.
- Support data enrichment, normalization, and integration with distributed streaming and analytics pipelines.
- Deep hands-on expertise with syslog-ng and large-scale syslog pipeline engineering.
- Strong understanding of syslog protocols and standards, including RFC3164, RFC5424, TCP, UDP, and TLS-based ingestion.
- Proven experience designing advanced filtering, routing, parsing, and regex optimization strategies.
- Strong knowledge of performance tuning parameters such as log-iw-size, log-fifo-size, flush_lines, disk-buffer management, and flow control.
- Experience handling high-volume event processing environments exceeding 10K–100K+ EPS workloads.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting and debugging skills using tools such as tcpdump, netstat, ss, top, and strace.
- Familiarity with SIEM platforms including Splunk, ELK, QRadar, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of distributed ingestion and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Spark is preferred.
- Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure environments, particularly Amazon Web Services, is advantageous.
- Familiarity with security log sources including firewalls, IAM systems, endpoints, and network devices is a plus.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with a proactive ownership mindset.
- Ability to design maintainable, scalable, and highly reliable configurations within complex enterprise environments.
- Fully remote work flexibility within India.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cybersecurity and SIEM infrastructure projects.
- Exposure to advanced log analytics, streaming architectures, and large-scale security operations environments.
- Collaborative and innovation-driven engineering culture focused on performance and operational excellence.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge security technologies, AI-driven analytics, and cloud-native systems.
- Professional growth opportunities through hands-on work with high-scale distributed systems and security platforms.
- Dynamic and fast-paced environment supporting continuous learning and technical innovation.
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Date Posted
05/15/2026
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