Engineer II

$60-$65 per hour

Coppell, TX

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• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team.

• This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, Open Telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management.

• The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices.

• This role will play a key part in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.

• 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.

• Open Telemetry & Telemetry Engineering

• Implement and support Open Telemetry 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.

• 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 Open Telemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.

• Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.

• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Power Shell, Bash, or similar languages.

• Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.

• Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, New Relic, Open Text 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 Dev Ops practices.

• Grafana Administration

• Terraform

• Open Telemetry (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

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