Grafana Engineer

Title: Grafana Engineer

Location: Morristown, NJ/Remote
Duration: Full Time

Job Description

Grafana Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Grafana Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using Grafana and related technologies. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in building dashboards, configuring alerts, integrating multiple data sources, and supporting cloud-native environments. The role involves collaborating with DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of business-critical applications and platforms.

Key Responsibilities

•              Design, develop, and maintain Grafana dashboards, visualizations, and reports for infrastructure, applications, and business metrics.

•              Configure and manage Grafana Alerting for proactive monitoring and incident response.

•              Integrate Grafana with various data sources such as: 

o             Prometheus

o             Loki

o             Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

o             InfluxDB

o             SQL databases

o             Cloud monitoring platforms (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations)

•              Develop observability solutions covering metrics, logs, and traces.

•              Implement monitoring strategies for Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise applications.

•              Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Application Support, and Platform Engineering teams to define monitoring requirements.

•              Automate dashboard deployment and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

•              Tune monitoring systems to minimize alert fatigue and improve operational efficiency.

•              Perform root cause analysis using monitoring and logging data.

•              Create and maintain technical documentation, monitoring standards, and operational runbooks.

•              Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and system optimization initiatives.

•              Ensure security and governance for monitoring platforms and data access.

Required Skills

•              Strong experience with Grafana dashboard development and administration.

•              Expertise in Grafana Alerting, notification channels, and alert rule management.

•              Experience with Grafana Enterprise is a plus.

•              Experience with: 

Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Splunk (preferred)

•              Understanding of Metrics, Logs, and Distributed Tracing concepts.

•              Experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

•              Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

•              Knowl edge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

•              Proficiency in scripting languages such as: 

o             Python

o             Bash/Shell

o             PowerShell

•              Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools.

•              Experience querying and analyzing monitoring data.

•              Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

•              Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

•              Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

•              Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.

•              Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing capabilities.

•              Grafana Enterprise deployment experience.

•              OpenTelemetry implementation experience.

•              Experience with AIOps and observability platforms.

•              Exposure to application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, or New Relic.

Keywords: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Cloud Monitoring, Observability, SRE, DevOps, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Monitoring, Alerting, PromQL, LogQL