Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Grafana

Job Description – Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Grafana & ObservabilityPosition: Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Grafana & ObservabilityLocation: [Hyderabad /Hybrid]Experience: 10–20+ yearsOperating globally, Aptimized is a premium ERP, HCM, and Technology Optimization Consulting agency. Our team at Aptimized focuses on helping our customers become intelligent enterprises through leveraging creative technology solutions. At Aptimized, we prioritize our clients’ needs and create tailor-made solutions to deliver success. We understand success is not achieved through chance. We listen to your concerns. We consult with your organization. We accelerate your business. Visit us at our website to learn more about what we can do for youWe are looking for a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep hands-on experience in Grafana ecosystem, observability engineering, and large-scale monitoring platforms.The ideal candidate will be an expert in building and managing Grafana dashboards, Managed Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, OpenTelemetry pipelines, and integrating multiple data sources across cloud and on-prem infrastructures.This role focuses heavily on building real-time observability, improving system reliability, and enabling data-driven operational insights.Key ResponsibilitiesGrafana Engineering & Dashboard DevelopmentBuild advanced Grafana dashboards with alerts, custom panels, JSON models, and data visualizations.Work with Grafana Managed (Azure Managed Grafana / AWS Managed Grafana) for enterprise-grade observability.Integrate Grafana with multiple data sources such as:PrometheusELK / ElasticsearchDynatraceCloudWatchAzure MonitorInfluxDB / TelegrafServiceNow (incident integrations)Develop role-based access (RBAC) and multi-tenant dashboard architectures.Promztheus, Metrics & AlertingArchitect and manage Prometheus metrics pipelines, exporters, recording/alerting rules.Optimize PromQL queries for high-performance dashboards.Reduce alert noise through intelligent rule tuning and SLO-driven alerts.Observability Platform OwnershipBuild and maintain end-to-end observability stack:Grafana + Prometheus + ELK + OpenTelemetry + Cloud-native monitoring tools.Integrate logs, metrics, traces into unified dashboards.Establish SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and real-time reliability insights.Kubernetes & Cloud MonitoringDeploy and monitor Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher).Configure Grafana Alloy / Prometheus Operator / kube-state-metrics for cluster-level insights.Implement Infrastructure-as-Code for observability stack deployments.Automation & Infrastructure as CodeAutomate monitoring agent deployments using:TerraformAzure DevOps / GitHub / GitLabFluxCD, Kustomize, HelmDevelop monitoring-as-code for repeatable environment provisioning.Incident Response & Performance TroubleshootingProvide deep troubleshooting across infrastructure, network, applications, and microservices.Build automated dashboards for war rooms and cross-team collaboration.Leverage Grafana annotations, synthetic monitoring, and event correlation.Security, Compliance & GovernanceImplement secure access to metric/log dashboards using IAM, RBAC, ABAC.Configure audit logs, long-term retention, and secure storage pipelines.(Optional: FedRAMP/NIST experience beneficial for regulated workloads.)Required Skills & ExpertiseGrafana & Observability (Primary)Expert in Grafana dashboard engineeringPrometheus + AlertmanagerManaged Grafana (Azure/AWS)ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)OpenTelemetry (OTEL) metrics & tracesGrafana Alloy, Loki (Bonus)Cloud PlatformsAzure, AWS, IBM Cloud (Nice-to-have)CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, App InsightsContainers & InfrastructureKubernetes (AKS, EKS)Docker, Rancher, OpenShiftLinux (RHEL/CentOS)DevOps & AutomationTerraform, Helm, KustomizeGit, CI/CD pipelinesScripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)Monitoring EcosystemExperience with additional tools is a plus:DynatraceSplunkSysdigAppDynamicsSolarWindsMoogsoft AI-OpsPreferred QualificationsStrong background in SRE, Observability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.ITIL v3 or industry certifications in AWS/Azure/Kubernetes are a plus.EducationBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.Certifications in cloud, observability, Grafana, or Kubernetes are an advantage.