Grafana & Observability Engineer — Enterprise Platform & Automation

StradIT; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

StradIT is seeking a Grafana & Observability Engineer to join our observability team across Jersey City, Tampa, and Dallas. You will administer Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments, and design enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.

You will establish governance and best practices, configure data sources, alerting, RBAC, folders, and teams, and ensure platform scalability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on Grafana administration in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong Terraform and IaC experience.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
• Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
• Scripting/automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and incident management practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments.
• Design and implement enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.
• Establish observability standards, governance, and best practices.
• Configure Grafana data sources, alerting, RBAC, folders, teams, and integrations.
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Grafana infrastructure and configuration management.
• Automate onboarding of applications, infrastructure, dashboards, alerts, and data sources.
• Build self-service capabilities that reduce manual operational effort and improve adoption.
• Integrate observability capabilities into CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
• Design meaningful monitoring and alerting strategies; reduce noise.
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement of operational visibility and platform health.
• Implement and support OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications and infrastructure.
• Establish standards for logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry collection.
• Support telemetry pipelines, agent deployments, and data collection strategies.
• Assist teams with instrumentation design and observability adoption.
• Support migration initiatives from legacy observability platforms to Grafana.
• Analyze existing monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing implementations and recommend modernization approaches.
• Develop reusable migration patterns, automation, and engineering standards.
• Partner with application teams to accelerate adoption of enterprise observability capabilities.
• Work closely with application development, infrastructure, cloud, and SRE teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization.
• Contribute to observability architecture, strategy, and roadmap development.
• Promote observability as a core engineering practice across the enterprise.

Skills

Grafana Administration

Terraform

OpenTelemetry (OTEL)

Monitoring & Alerting

Observability Engineering

Platform Engineering

Linux Administration

AWS Cloud Services

Automation & Scripting

Incident Management

Infrastructure as Code

Telemetry Pipelines

Reliability Engineering

Root Cause Analysis

Enterprise Monitoring Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Tempo

Loki

Mimir

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

StradIT is seeking a Grafana & Observability Engineer to join our observability team across Jersey City, Tampa, and Dallas. You will administer Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments, and design enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.

You will establish governance and best practices, configure data sources, alerting, RBAC, folders, and teams, and ensure platform scalability and reliability.