Lead Grafana & Observability Platform Engineer

StradIT; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

StradIT is seeking a Grafana & Observability Engineer to join our team. The role focuses on building and operating an enterprise observability stack, including Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments, across multiple environments.

You will drive standardization, implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation, develop Terraform modules, and partner with app teams to raise platform health while guiding incident response and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in observability, monitoring, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on Grafana administration in large-scale environments.
• Strong Terraform and IaC experience.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
• Linux and cloud platform administration.
• scripting in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Knowledge of incident management and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer Grafana Cloud and on-prem Grafana deployments.
• Design enterprise observability for metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Develop Terraform modules for Grafana infra.
• Automate onboarding of apps, infra, dashboards, data sources.
• Define monitoring strategies and reduce alert noise.
• Lead observability architecture and mentor engineers.
• Advise teams on instrumentation and telemetry best practices.

Skills

Grafana Administration

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Monitoring & Alerting

Platform Engineering

Linux Administration

AWS Cloud

Automation & Scripting

Incident Management

Telemetry Pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Reliability Engineering

Root Cause Analysis

Observability Architecture

Education

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

Tools

Grafana

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

StradIT is seeking a Grafana & Observability Engineer to join our team. The role focuses on building and operating an enterprise observability stack, including Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments, across multiple environments.

You will drive standardization, implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation, develop Terraform modules, and partner with app teams to raise platform health while guiding incident response and governance.