Observability/ Monitoring Engineer - Grafana Dashboarding

We’re seeking an experienced contractor to support the delivery of observability solutions for a new, large-scale infrastructure environment. This role focuses on developing insightful and automated Grafana dashboards, with a strong emphasis on data integration and actionable telemetry.

Required Skills

• Excellent, concise communication skills - essential for collaborating with technical teams to shape observability outputs.
• Deep experience with Grafana dashboard creation, templating, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of PromQL, VictoriaMetrics, or VictoriaLogs query languages.
• Ability to interpret and map RESTful API data into observability pipelines and dashboards.
• Familiarity with IaC outputs and tooling (e.g., Terraform) as data sources for observability.
• Solid programming ability in Golang (preferred) or Python for automation and integration.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience working in Linux-based environments.

Bonus / Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience deploying Grafana instances via code (provisioning dashboards, datasources).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, metric instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
• Background in data center environments, infrastructure monitoring, or SRE practices.
• Exposure to CI/CD workflows, containers (Podman/Docker), and cloud-native systems.