Grafana Technical SME

Job Title: Grafana Technical SME
Workplace Type: Hybrid-3 Days Onsite (Jersey City, NJ)
Employment Type: Contract to Direct Hire (6 months)

Overview:
Join a leading organization as a Grafana Technical SME, where your expertise will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing observability solutions. Bringing deep knowledge in Grafana, log tracing, and application performance monitoring, you will help elevate the company’s monitoring infrastructure, ensuring robust system performance and reliability in a complex environment. This role offers the chance to work on impactful projects in a collaborative, innovative setting, blending onsite engagement with flexible work arrangements.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience with Grafana dashboard design and implementation
• Proven track record in application performance monitoring (APM) and observability tooling
• Hands-on expertise in log tracing, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting distributed applications
• Strong knowledge of cloud platform integrations, especially with AWS environments
• Proficiency in using tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, and Splunk
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, scripting with Python and shell) for deploying observability solutions
• Ability to configure SLO-based alerting and optimize observability stacks

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with performance testing and load injection
• Familiarity with automation pipelines and CI/CD integrations for monitoring tools
• Knowledge of complex, regulated environments such as financial or government sectors

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or related discipline
• Prior hands-on roles focused on observability, site reliability engineering, or performance engineering in similar environments

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet onsite requirements (3 days per week) at designated locations (Jersey City, NJ or Dallas)
• Availability to start immediately or as soon as possible
• Must have valid, redacted photo ID attached to profile for submission
• Candidates should be authorized to work in the US (USC sponsorship is necessary)

Step into a vital role where your skills in observability and Grafana will drive real impact. If you’re ready to apply your expertise in a fast-paced environment and help shape best practices around system monitoring, we encourage you to submit your profile today!