Grafana Developer

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.