Grafana Engineer

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 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