CGI Federal has an exciting opportunity for a Log Aggregation Administrator within our Intel sector advancing the national security mission through cutting edge technology. You must have a passion for keeping pace with rapidly evolving technology advancements and leveraging your knowledge on a highly collaborative team to deliver state-of-the-art capabilities. The Log Aggregation Administrator manages the centralized collection, processing, and analysis of log data from various IT systems. This role is critical for monitoring system performance, enhancing security, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring compliance across an organization's distributed infrastructure. CGI Federal is growing its high-performance team whose members share a passion for building high-quality, scalable, advanced IT solutions in a collaborative, fast-paced, outcome-driven mission. This position is located in USA VA Arlington, however, a hybrid working model is acceptable. Your future duties and responsibilities: System management: Install, configure, and maintain log aggregation platforms and their components, including data collectors and processors. Log pipeline development: Design, build, and optimize the data pipelines that collect, normalize, and enrich log data from diverse sources like servers, applications, databases, and network devices. Monitoring and alerting: Create and manage customized monitoring dashboards and alerting rules to notify administrators of critical events, performance issues, and anomalies. Data analysis: Perform advanced searches and data analysis on log data to identify root causes of problems, investigate security incidents, and detect performance trends. Performance tuning: Continuously monitor and tune the log aggregation infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, resource utilization, and efficient processing of large volumes of data. Security and compliance: Implement and enforce logging policies, access controls, and data retention policies to meet security standards and regulatory compliance requirements. Collaboration: Work with different teams, such as security analysts, developers, and system administrators, to provide them with the log data and tools they need for their roles. Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot issues with data ingestion, pipeline failures, and platform performance. Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for all logging systems, policies, and procedures.