Grafana Observability SME

Grafana Cloud Observability Platform Engineer

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Skills:

1. Production expertise across the full Grafana stack:
Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alloy, Beyla, Grafana Application Observability, Unified Alerting.
2. Strong PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL authoring skills; able to write recording rules and SLO queries from scratch.
3. Open Telemetry practitioner — OTLP, collectors, SDK/agent instrumentation for at least three of Java,.NET, Go, Python, Node.js. 4. eBPF-based auto-instrumentation experience with Beyla (or equivalent — Pixie, Cilium Tetragon) in a production context.
5. Experience integrating Grafana alerts into Service Now Event Management (native inbound integration, not webhook-only patterns); familiarity with Service Now ITOM, AIOps event correlation, and CMDB CI attachment.
6. Multi-environment hosting fluency — on-prem, AWS, Azure — and Linux/Windows host agent deployment at scale.
7. Dashboard-as-code and Git Ops patterns (Grafana provisioning, Terraform provider, or Grizzly). 8. Excellent written communication — solution architecture documents, runbooks, and stakeholder-facing status reporting.

Role

Summary:

Own the end-to-end technical design, build, and operationalization of the Grafana Cloud observability platform for a 50-application estate spanning Java,.NET, Go, Python, and Node.js workloads hosted across on-premises data centres, AWS, and Azure. The SME serves as the senior technical authority across all eight in-scope Grafana Cloud modules and is accountable for instrumentation strategy, alerting design, dashboarding standards, and integration into Service Now ITOM via native Event Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform architecture and configuration across all eight in-scope Grafana Cloud modules.
• Tenancy and access design — organizations, folders, teams, role-based access control, dashboard variables, template links, and annotations.
• Application instrumentation strategy by technology stack.
• Log pipeline engineering via Alloy.
• Alerting design.
• Single Pane of Glass.
• Business Dashboards and Reporting.
• Service Now ITOM integration.
• Quality assurance authority across all technical deliverables.
• Phased delivery execution.
• Knowledge transfer.

Required

Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years in observability/monitoring engineering with deep, recent hands-on Grafana Cloud experience (not just OSS Grafana).
• Production expertise across the full Grafana stack.
• Strong PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL authoring skills.
• Open Telemetry practitioner.
• eBPF-based auto-instrumentation experience.
• Experience integrating Grafana alerts into Service Now Event Management.
• Multi-environment hosting fluency.
• Dashboard-as-code and Git Ops patterns.
• Excellent written communication.

Nice to Have:

• Grafana Certified Professional or equivalent vendor certification.
• Prior experience in a regulated utility, energy, or critical-infrastructure environment.
• Familiarity with Solar Winds and Uptrends.
• Experience with Service Now CSDM and Service Mapping governance.
• Exposure to Fin Ops for observability.

Out of Scope for This Role:

• Server health and network monitoring.
• URL/synthetic endpoint monitoring.
• Service Now ITSM workflow ownership.