Job Description
The Grafana Engineer is responsible for deploying, configuring, integrating, and optimizing Grafana-based observability solutions to support enterprise monitoring, analytics, and performance visibility needs. This role designs and builds dashboards, manages back-end data connections, maintains observability pipelines, and ensures reliable visual analytics capabilities across production and non-production environments. The ideal candidate brings expertise in Grafana platform administration, data visualization engineering, observability tooling, and time-series data systems within modern cloud or hybrid infrastructures.
Key Responsibilities Grafana Configuration & Development • Design, build, and maintain Grafana dashboards, panels, alerting rules, reports, and visualizations • Configure and administer Grafana Enterprise or OSS environments • Build and manage templated dashboards, variables, transformations, and plug-ins • Develop re-usable visualization components to support engineering, business, and operational reporting Data Integration & Observability • Integrate Grafana with observability and telemetry data sources including: • Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, and SQL sources • Build and tune data models to improve visualization performance and data quality • Develop and maintain observability pipelines supporting metrics, logs & traces Platform Engineering & Operations • Deploy and manage Grafana on Kubernetes, containers, or Linux hosts • Configure roles, permissions, SSO/LDAP/AD authentication, and tenant management • Manage plug-in lifecycle, upgrades, patches, and version control • Maintain availability, scalability, and HA configurations Performance, Automation & Optimization • Automate deployments using IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, GitOps pipelines) • Drive performance tuning across dashboards and ingestion sources • Enable usage analytics and optimization reporting • Implement logging/alerting to maintain platform health & SLAs Collaboration & Support • Partner with DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform, SecOps, Data, and App Engineering teams • Train users in dashboard creation standards and visualization best practices • Provide operational support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis • Document architecture, standards, dashboards, environment configurations, and runbooks Required Qualifications Experience • 8+ years experience with Grafana platform administration & dashboard development • Hands-on experience with Grafana Enterprise, OSS, Cloud, or hosted platforms • Experience integrating Grafana with at least two core time-series data sources • Strong experience in Linux, networking, and observability stack development • Experience working in production monitoring/observability environments Technical Skills • Grafana dashboard engineering and theming • Time-series databases and log systems • PromQL, LogQL, SQL, and/or Flux query writing • Scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, Go or similar) • Git-based workflows and bolthires/CD pipelines • Linux administration • Containers and Kubernetes experience Preferred Certifications (Not mandatory but highly valued) • Grafana Observability Stack Pro/Enterprise certifications • CNCF or Kubernetes certification (CKA/CKAD) • HashiCorp Terraform certification • Linux administration certification Soft Skills • Ability to simplify complex data into impactful visuals • Strong documentation and engineering discipline • Effective communicator with cross-functional teams • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment Nice-to-Haves • Experience with Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Cortex, or Thanos • Experience with distributed tracing systems • Experience with elastic logging and SIEM platforms • Multi-tenant Grafana environment operations • Experience in financial services, retail, healthcare, or large enterprise ops Apply tot his job