Grafana Developer

Job Title

Grafana Developer (Onsite Saudi Arabia, 23 Months Contract)

Location

Onsite in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh

Contract Type

Short-term contract (23 months)

Start Date: ASAP

Work Mode: Onsite, full-time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Grafana Developer to design, build, and optimize dashboards and visualizations for key operational and business metrics. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, integrating diverse data sources, implementing alerting/monitoring, and ensuring dashboard performance and reliabilityall while working onsite in Saudi Arabia for the duration of the engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Dashboard Design & Development
• Architect and develop Grafana dashboards for infrastructure, application performance, business KPIs, and operational monitoring.
• Create reusable panels, variables, templating, and multi-tenanted dashboard structures.
• Implement drill-downs, annotations, and role-based access to support different stakeholder views.
• Data Source Integration
• Connect and configure common data sources (e.g., Prometheus , Loki , Elastic/Elasticsearch , InfluxDB , MySQL/PostgreSQL , Azure Monitor , CloudWatch , OpenSearch ), ELK knowledge and zabbix datasources
• Optimize queries (PromQL, LogQL, SQL) for performance and accuracy.
• Alerting & Observability
• Set up alert rules, notification channels (email, Slack/Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie), and escalation policies.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to strengthen observability across logs, metrics, and traces.
• Performance & Security
• Tune Grafana performance, caching, data source query limits, and reduce panel load times.
• Implement RBAC , data source permissions, folder structures, and comply with organizational security standards.
• Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
• Produce documentation (dashboard usage, data mappings, alert playbooks).
• Conduct workshops and handover sessions for internal teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Translate business requirements into meaningful visualizations, acceptance criteria, and SLA-backed monitoring.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 36+ years of experience in Grafana dashboarding and observability.
• Strong hands-on with Prometheus/PromQL , Loki/LogQL , Elastic/Elasticsearch/KQL , and SQL.
• Experience integrating Grafana with common backends (Prometheus, Loki, Elastic, InfluxDB, RDBMS, cloud monitors).
• Proficiency in Grafana Alerting , variables, templating, transformations, and advanced panels.
• Understanding of time-series data , performance tuning, and dashboard UX best practices.
• Familiarity with DevOps/SRE workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure monitoring.
• Solid grasp of RBAC , secrets management, and secure configurations.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to work onsite with cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Grafana Enterprise features (SSO, reporting, fine-grained permissions).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes /Helm, Terraform , or Ansible for provisioning Grafana and data sources.
• Exposure to APM tools (Jaeger/Tempo, OpenTelemetry).
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) & platform-specific monitors.
• Prior experience working in Saudi Arabia or GCC region.

Engagement Details

• Duration: 23 months (extendable based on project needs).
• Onsite Requirement: Full-time onsite in Saudi Arabia.
• Working Hours: Standard local business hours
• Travel & Accommodation: ( provided by employer, allowances, per diem).
• Visa & Compliance: Employer to support work visa /permits as required; candidate must comply with local laws and company policies.
• Security & Confidentiality: Background verification may be required; adherence to data protection and security guidelines.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Languages

• English (professional proficiency) required