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Job Title: Dashboard Developer – Automation & Observability
Location: Dallas, TX or Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid w/ 3 days onsite)
Work Type: Contract to Hire
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Dashboard Developer with strong DevOps and automation expertise to design and deliver advanced Grafana-based observability solutions. This role will serve as a subject matter expert (SME), responsible for building actionable dashboards, implementing automation, and guiding best practices across monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud-native environments.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical skills with the ability to partner with stakeholders to translate system and business needs into effective observability solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Grafana & Observability
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Grafana dashboards providing insights into infrastructure, application performance, and business KPIs
- Integrate Grafana (including Grafana Cloud) with data sources such as Prometheus, Loki, AWS, Snowflake, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and REST APIs
- Implement dashboards and alerts for SLA breaches, latency issues, and transaction anomalies
- Monitor telemetry from platforms including Linux, Windows, application servers, identity platforms, and relational databases
- Optimize dashboard performance, usability, and adoption across engineering and operations teams
- Implement and manage OpenTelemetry instrumentation to collect metrics, logs, and distributed traces
- Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry collectors and exporters across environments
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to align observability solutions with business needs
DevOps & Automation
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Nexus
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible
- Automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring of cloud-native and on-premises environments
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and security through automation
- Reduce manual processes by streamlining workflows across teams
Subject Matter Expert Responsibilities
- Act as a technical advisor on observability and automation best practices
- Lead initiatives to improve system performance, reliability, and developer productivity
- Create documentation and deliver knowledge-sharing sessions for internal teams
- Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and approaches
- Promote and guide adoption of OpenTelemetry standards across engineering teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure automation
- 3 years of hands-on experience with Grafana dashboard development
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
- Experience implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation and data pipelines
- Understanding of security and compliance in automated environments