Grafana Observability Architect in Tampa, FL & Dallas, TX

Role: Grafana Observability Architect 

Location: Tampa, FL/ Dallas, TX (Hybrid role)

Duration: Long Term

Key Responsibilities:

Grafana & Observability:

• Architect and implement observability platforms using Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, and Prometheus.
• Design and maintain scalable telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Agent.
• Define and enforce observability standards, SLIs/SLOs, and alerting strategies.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to instrument services for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Develop reusable dashboards and templates for performance monitoring and incident response.
• Design and implement visually compelling and data-rich Grafana dashboards for Observability.
• Integrate Grafana Cloud with data sources such as Prometheus, Loki, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Snowflake, AWS
• Integrate telemetry data sources such as Tomcat, Liberty, Ping, Linux, Windows, and databases (Oracle, PostGres) and REST API.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure automation roles.
• hands-on experience with Grafana and dashboard development.
• Strong proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Loki, Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with security and compliance in automated environments.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and data collection.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Grafana certification or equivalent experience.
• Experience with custom Grafana plugins or panel development.
• Knowledge of business intelligence tools and data visualization principles.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps or observability projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry Collector configuration and integration.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing concepts.