Grafana & Observability Engineer - Dallas, Tampa & Jersey City

<h2>Role: Grafana &amp; Observability Engineer</h2><h2>Experience: 5 to 10 years</h2><h2>Employment: W2</h2><h2>Location: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL &amp; Dallas TX</h2><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><h2>Observability Platform Engineering</h2><ul>
<li>Administer and support Grafana Cloud and on-premises Grafana deployments.</li>
<li>Design and implement enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.</li>
<li>Establish and maintain observability standards, best practices, and governance processes.</li>
<li>Configure and manage Grafana data sources, alerting, RBAC, folders, teams, and integrations.</li>
<li>Ensure platform scalability, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.</li>
</ul><h2>Automation &amp; Infrastructure as Code</h2><ul>
<li>Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Grafana infrastructure and configuration management.</li>
<li>Automate onboarding of applications, infrastructure, dashboards, alerts, and data sources.</li>
<li>Build self-service capabilities that reduce manual operational effort and improve adoption.</li>
<li>Integrate observability capabilities into CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning workflows.</li>
</ul><h2>Monitoring, Alerting &amp; Incident Management</h2><ul>
<li>Design meaningful monitoring and alerting strategies based on service health and business-critical workflows.</li>
<li>Implement and optimize alerting standards to reduce noise and improve signal quality.</li>
<li>Support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.</li>
<li>Drive continuous improvement of operational visibility and platform health.</li>
</ul><h2>OpenTelemetry &amp; Telemetry Engineering</h2><ul>
<li>Implement and support OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications and infrastructure.</li>
<li>Establish standards for logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry collection.</li>
<li>Support telemetry pipelines, agent deployments, and data collection strategies.</li>
<li>Assist teams with instrumentation design and observability adoption.</li>
</ul><h2>Migration &amp; Modernization</h2><ul>
<li>Support migration initiatives from legacy observability platforms to Grafana.</li>
<li>Analyze existing monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing implementations and recommend modernization approaches.</li>
<li>Develop reusable migration patterns, automation, and engineering standards.</li>
<li>Partner with application teams to accelerate adoption of enterprise observability capabilities.</li>
</ul><h2>Collaboration &amp; Leadership</h2><ul>
<li>Work closely with application development, infrastructure, cloud, and SRE teams.</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization.</li>
<li>Contribute to observability architecture, strategy, and roadmap development.</li>
<li>Promote observability as a core engineering practice across the enterprise.</li>
</ul><h2>Required Qualifications</h2><ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.</li>
<li>Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.</li>
<li>Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.</li>
<li>Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.</li>
<li>Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.</li>
<li>Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.</li>
<li>Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.</li>
</ul><h2>Preferred Qualifications</h2><ul>
<li>Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms.</li>
<li>Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus.</li>
<li>Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments.</li>
<li>Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability.</li>
<li>Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models.</li>
<li>Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.</li>
</ul><h2>Desired Skills</h2><ul>
<li>Grafana Administration</li>
<li>Terraform</li>
<li>OpenTelemetry (OTEL)</li>
<li>Monitoring &amp; Alerting</li>
<li>Observability Engineering</li>
<li>Platform Engineering</li>
<li>Linux Administration</li>
<li>AWS Cloud Services</li>
<li>Automation &amp; Scripting</li>
<li>Incident Management</li>
<li>Infrastructure as Code</li>
<li>Telemetry Pipelines</li>
<li>Reliability Engineering</li>
<li>Root Cause Analysis</li>
<li>Enterprise Monitoring Architecture</li>
</ul>