Grafana Architect || Basking Ridge, NJ

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I have an urgent opening of Grafana Architect at Basking Ridge, NJ with one of our direct client. Please let me know if you are interested in below role.

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Job Title: Grafana Architect

Location: Basking Ridge, NJ

Duration: 3+ Months

We are seeking a seasoned Grafana Architect with strong expertise in designing and implementing observability and monitoring solutions across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and on-premise environments. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and integrations with various telemetry sources. You will be responsible for end-to-end observability strategy, architectural governance, implementation, and evangelizing best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable observability solutions across hybrid/multi-cloud and on-premise environments using Grafana OSS/Enterprise.
• Define monitoring strategies, SLOs/SLIs, dashboards, alerts, and reporting mechanisms for infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Integrate Grafana with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, cloud-native tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Platform Operations Suite), and on-prem systems.
• Lead design and implementation of custom plugins, data sources, and dashboards for cross-platform observability.
• Build and standardize templates, alerting rules, and RBAC models within Grafana Enterprise.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and App teams to define observability needs and onboard them into the platform.
• Define and implement monitoring as code (MaC) practices using Terraform/Ansible for observability infrastructure.
• Govern and optimize telemetry collection (logs, metrics, traces) for performance, cost, and usability.
• Lead capacity planning, HA/DR design, performance tuning, and upgrades for Grafana stack.
• Provide thought leadership on OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, log aggregation, and AIOps capabilities.
• Conduct training, documentation, and internal community engagement around observability tools.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Grafana, including dashboard design, plugin development, and user management.
• Strong expertise with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager, and OpenTelemetry.
• Proven experience designing multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) observability frameworks.
• Experience integrating with on-premise systems (e.g., vSphere, bare-metal monitoring, SNMP, legacy tools).
• Hands-on with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps practices for monitoring infrastructure.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring standards, telemetry formats (Prometheus metrics, OTLP, JSON logs).
• Proficient in SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting strategy).
• Experience with RBAC, LDAP/SAML integration, Grafana Enterprise features.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems and observability pipelines.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AIOps/ML-based anomaly detection in observability.
• Knowledge of security and compliance considerations in monitoring (e.g., SOC2, PCI).
• Exposure to SIEM tools like Splunk, Chronicle, or Elastic Security.
• Experience with Kafka, Fluent Bit, Vector, or similar log forwarding pipelines.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Grafana Certified Observability Professional
• AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure Solution Architect Associate or Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Regards,

Akash Gangwar

Veridian Tech Solutions, Inc.

11931 Wick Chester Lane Suite 150

Houston, TX, 77043