Grafana Cloud Engineer at OmegaHires – Dallas, Texas

We are seeking an experienced Grafana Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise observability solutions using Grafana Cloud. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and cloud-native monitoring architectures.

• Design, deploy, and manage Grafana Cloud environments for enterprise monitoring solutions.

• Configure and manage data sources such as Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and cloud monitoring tools.

• Integrate monitoring platforms with AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and GCP Operations Suite.

• Implement secure authentication and authorization using SSO, OAuth, LDAP, or Azure AD.

• Optimize Grafana architecture for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Design and implement end-to-end observability stacks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.

• Develop monitoring strategies aligned with SRE and DevOps practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs).

• Configure alerting systems using Grafana Alerting, Alertmanager, and Loki alerts with escalation workflows.

• Develop custom Grafana dashboards for application and infrastructure monitoring.

• Translate business and technical monitoring requirements into actionable visualizations.

• Standardize dashboard templates and monitoring frameworks across teams.

• Integrate Grafana Cloud with Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.

• Automate observability deployments using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or GitOps workflows.

• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation for distributed tracing.

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to metrics, logs, traces, and data source configurations.

• Optimize queries using PromQL, LogQL, and SQL for performance and cost efficiency.

• Ensure high availability and reliability of monitoring platforms.

• Develop architecture documentation, runbooks, and best practice guides.

• Train internal teams on Grafana dashboards, alerting, and observability practices.

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Grafana Cloud initiatives.

• 5+ years of experience implementing and managing Grafana or Grafana Cloud.

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Grafana Mimir

  • Loki

  • Tempo

  • Prometheus

  • Alertmanager

• Experience with PromQL, LogQL, and SQL query optimization.

• Hands-on experience implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and cloud-native observability.

• Experience with DevOps automation tools including Terraform, Helm, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong understanding of SRE principles, monitoring design, and performance engineering.

• Excellent collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams.

• Grafana Cloud or Prometheus certifications.

• Experience designing multi-tenant monitoring solutions.

• Integration experience with ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Jira.

• Knowledge of RBAC, security frameworks, and compliance standards.

• Experience with other observability tools such as Splunk or New Relic.

• Ability to work independently in fast-paced environments and support hands-on implementation.