Grafana Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title : Grafana Enterprise Engineer / Observability Engineer

Location : Hyderabad (Office-based)

Experience : 5–10 years

Employment Type : Full-time

Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Grafana Enterprise Engineer with strong experience in observability, monitoring, performance optimization, and dashboarding across large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with Grafana Enterprise, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and other observability tools.

Key Responsibilities

Grafana Enterprise Administration

Install, configure, and manage Grafana Enterprise environments (on-prem / cloud).

Manage users, roles, permissions, and Grafana Enterprise features such as :

Enterprise plugins

Reporting

SSO integrations

Alerting & Incident management

Optimize performance of Grafana back-end services.

Observability Stack Management

Deploy, manage, and scale :

Prometheus / Mimir

Loki (log aggregation)

Tempo (tracing)

Alertmanager

Develop scraping strategies, retention policies, sharding, and federation setups.

Integrate data sources including InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and others.

Dashboards & Alerts

Architect and create advanced Grafana dashboards with templating, variables, and drill-down capabilities.

Build actionable alerting rules, automate alert routing / notifications, and reduce noise.

Work with teams to define SLIs / SLOs, performance metrics, and monitoring standards.

Automation & SRE Practices

Implement automation using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools.

Develop monitoring-as-code templates for scalable deployments.

Participate in SRE practices including :

Incident response

Root cause analysis (RCA)

Performance tuning

Capacity planning

Collaboration

Work closely with application, DevOps, and cloud teams to onboard services into the monitoring ecosystem.

Train internal teams on dashboard usage, alerting, and observability best practices.

Required Skills

3+ years hands-on Grafana Enterprise experience.

Strong expertise in Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, or similar observability tools.

Strong skills in Dashboards, Alerting, Metrics, Logs.

Experience building and supporting high-availability observability platforms.

Strong Linux and scripting skills (Shell, Python).

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI / CD tools.

Knowledge of cloud platforms : AWS / Azure / GCP.

Experience with SSO, LDAP, OAuth, or SAML integrations.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Grafana Mimir, Grafana Cloud, or Enterprise Metrics.

Exposure to log pipelines like Promtail, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Vector.

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) experience.

Certification in Cloud or Observability tools.