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Role: Grafana & Observability Engineer
Experience: 5 to 10 years
Employment: W2
Location: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL & Dallas TX
Key Responsibilities
Observability Platform Engineering
- Administer and support Grafana Cloud and on-premises Grafana deployments.
- Design and implement enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.
- Establish and maintain observability standards, best practices, and governance processes.
- Configure and manage Grafana data sources, alerting, RBAC, folders, teams, and integrations.
- Ensure platform scalability, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Grafana infrastructure and configuration management.
- Automate onboarding of applications, infrastructure, dashboards, alerts, and data sources.
- Build self-service capabilities that reduce manual operational effort and improve adoption.
- Integrate observability capabilities into CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Management
- Design meaningful monitoring and alerting strategies based on service health and business-critical workflows.
- Implement and optimize alerting standards to reduce noise and improve signal quality.
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement of operational visibility and platform health.
OpenTelemetry & Telemetry Engineering
- Implement and support OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications and infrastructure.
- Establish standards for logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry collection.
- Support telemetry pipelines, agent deployments, and data collection strategies.
- Assist teams with instrumentation design and observability adoption.
Migration & Modernization
- Support migration initiatives from legacy observability platforms to Grafana.
- Analyze existing monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing implementations and recommend modernization approaches.
- Develop reusable migration patterns, automation, and engineering standards.
- Partner with application teams to accelerate adoption of enterprise observability capabilities.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Work closely with application development, infrastructure, cloud, and SRE teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization.
- Contribute to observability architecture, strategy, and roadmap development.
- Promote observability as a core engineering practice across the enterprise.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5 years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
- Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus.
- Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability.
- Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models.
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.
Desired Skills
- Grafana Administration
- Terraform
- OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
- Monitoring & Alerting
- Observability Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Linux Administration
- AWS Cloud Services
- Automation & Scripting
- Incident Management
- Infrastructure as Code
- Telemetry Pipelines
- Reliability Engineering
- Root Cause Analysis
- Enterprise Monitoring Architecture