Senior Grafana Engineer

Job Title : Senior Grafana Engineer

Job Location : Troy, NY(Onsite)

Job Duration :Long-term Contract(12+ months)

Pay rate : $75/hr on W2 & $85/hr on C2C

Job Description:

Senior Grafana Engineer responsible for enterprise observability platform engineering, Grafana Cloud migration, OpenTelemetry adoption, automation, integrations, production support, and operational excellence across AWS and hybrid environments.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead Grafana Cloud platform engineering and migration from New Relic.
• Design enterprise observability architecture using Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and IRM.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, service health views, SLIs, SLOs, and operational reporting.
• Support production readiness, incident management, MTTR reduction, and operational excellence.
• Create runbooks, onboarding standards, and reusable observability templates.

Grafana Expertise

• Grafana Cloud
• Grafana Scenes
• PromQL, LogQL, TraceQL
• Executive and technical dashboard UX
• Grafana Alloy and OpenTelemetry instrumentation patterns

AWS & Platform Engineering

• AWS, ECS, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Hybrid cloud and on-prem observability
• AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation

Integration Experience

• ServiceNow ITSM integration
• ServiceNow CMDB integration and service mapping
• PagerDuty incident management integration
• Slack and ChatOps integrations
• AWS Cost Explorer and FinOps dashboards
• Snowflake analytics integration
• dbt data model integration
• REST APIs, webhooks, and enterprise platform integrations

Automation & AI

• Python development and automation
• Data pipelines and telemetry enrichment
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• LLM integrations and agentic workflows
• AI-assisted incident analysis and operational intelligence

Security

• CyberArk integration
• Secrets management and IAM governance
• Secure observability platform administration

Regards,

Vishwajeet Verma