Job Description
Job Title: Grafana and Obserability Engineer
Location: Dallas/Jersey/Tampa0 any office- hybrid
Duration: 12 + Months (Possible Extension)
Shift Schedule: Monday Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Employment Type : Contract-to-Hire (CTH)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management.
The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices. This role will play a key part in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Observability Platform Engineering
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Desired Skills
Location: Dallas/Jersey/Tampa0 any office- hybrid
Duration: 12 + Months (Possible Extension)
Shift Schedule: Monday Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Employment Type : Contract-to-Hire (CTH)
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management.
The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices. This role will play a key part in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.
Observability Platform Engineering
- Administer and support Grafana Cloud and on-premises Grafana deployments.
- Design and implement enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.
- Establish and maintain observability standards, best practices, and governance processes.
- Configure and manage 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 based on service health and business-critical workflows.
- Implement and optimize alerting standards to reduce noise and improve signal quality.
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
- Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.
- Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus.
- Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability.
- Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models.
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.
- 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
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Coppell, TX |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.
Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Enterprise Architectureunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Incident Managementunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Instrumentationunmatched
- Linux Administrationunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Splunkunmatched
- System Migrationunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Telemetryunmatched
- Windows PowerShellunmatched
Level up your application
Professional resume templates
Browse dozens of recruiter approved resume templates, layouts and formats. Choose your favorite and make it your own in minutes.
Free resume templatesFree resume builder
Improve your existing resume or start from scratch and create a standout, ATS-friendly resume. Add job-specific content, download and apply.
Free resume builder