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
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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 CI/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
