Remote Senior Observability Engineer (Grafana + Python)

Description:

• We are seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with strong expertise in Grafana and Python to lead telemetry, monitoring, and automation efforts across our cloud-native infrastructure.
• This role is critical in shaping our observability strategy, building real-time dashboards, and automating alerting pipelines to ensure high system availability and performance.
• Key responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining Grafana dashboards for real-time infrastructure and application monitoring.
• The engineer will build and enhance Python-based automation tools for telemetry data processing, health checks, and alerts.
• Integration of observability solutions with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry is required.
• The role involves defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and proactive alerting mechanisms.
• Collaboration with SREs, DevOps, and developers to improve monitoring coverage and incident response is essential.
• The engineer will contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD workflows using Python, Git, and DevOps tools.
• Leading tool selection, observability best practices, and adoption across engineering teams is also part of the role.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in observability, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Grafana, including templating, alerting, and data source integration is required.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and data processing is necessary.
• Experience with Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Kubernetes is essential.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, tracing, and telemetry pipelines is required.
• Exposure to tools like Loki, OpenTelemetry, ArgoCD, or Terraform is a plus.

Benefits:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) is a nice to have.
• Knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS) is beneficial.
• The ability to design cost-efficient monitoring solutions and dashboards is advantageous.
• The company promotes a fun, happy, and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self-organisation.
• Employees will work with large scale systems powering global businesses.
• A competitive salary and benefits package is offered.