Grafana Engineer

Grafana Engineer

Location:

Morristown, NJ (Onsite) Fulltime

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 Dev Ops, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of business-critical applications and platforms.

• 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:

• Prometheus
• Loki
• Elasticsearch/Open Search
• InfluxDB
• SQL databases
• Cloud monitoring platforms (AWS Cloud Watch, 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, Dev Ops, 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.

• 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, Open Telemetry, Elasticsearch/Open Search, Splunk (preferred)

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

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure and GCP

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as:

• Python
• Bash/Shell
• Power Shell

• 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.

• Open Telemetry implementation experience.

• Experience with AIOps and observability platforms.

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

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