Grafana Engineer (Observability & Monitoring)

TCS•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

We are seeking a skilled Grafana Engineer with 4–6 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise monitoring and observability solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Kubernetes, and cloud monitoring platforms. The role involves building dashboards, configuring alerts, integrating multiple monitoring data sources, implementing observability strategies, automating monitoring infrastructure, and collaborating with DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application Support teams to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise applications.

Requirements

4–6 Years Monitoring & Observability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
DevOps / Platform Engineering
Grafana
Grafana Enterprise
Grafana Alerting
Prometheus
Loki
Tempo
OpenTelemetry
PromQL
LogQL
Splunk
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
InfluxDB
AWS CloudWatch
Azure Monitor
Google Cloud Operations (GCP)
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Bash
Shell Scripting
PowerShell
Metrics
Logs
Distributed Tracing
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Incident Management
Performance Monitoring
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Excellent communication skills
Stakeholder management
Problem-solving mindset
Team collaboration
Documentation and knowledge sharing
Ability to work independently
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

OpenTelemetry AIOps
Dynatrace
Datadog
AppDynamics
New Relic
Prometheus Federation
Service Mesh Monitoring

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Grafana dashboards and visualizations.
Build operational, infrastructure, application, and business monitoring dashboards.
Configure Grafana Alerting, notification channels, and alert rules.
Administer and maintain Grafana Enterprise environments.
Optimize dashboards for usability and performance.
Design enterprise observability solutions covering: Metrics, Logs, Distributed Traces.
Implement monitoring strategies for: Kubernetes clusters, Containers, Virtual Machines, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications.
Configure proactive monitoring and alerting to reduce downtime.
Perform root cause analysis using monitoring and log data.
Integrate Grafana with enterprise monitoring platforms including: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, InfluxDB, SQL Databases, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations (GCP).
Implement cloud-native monitoring solutions on: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Monitor containerized workloads and Kubernetes clusters.
Support enterprise platform observability.
Automate dashboard deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
Implement CI/CD pipelines for monitoring configurations.
Use: Terraform, Ansible.
Develop automation scripts using: Python, Bash, PowerShell.
Tune monitoring systems to reduce alert fatigue.
Perform capacity planning.
Conduct system performance analysis.
Optimize monitoring configurations for scalability.
Create monitoring standards and operational runbooks.
Maintain technical documentation.
Ensure monitoring platform security and governance.
Implement access control and monitoring best practices.