Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited

About The Client

An Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida, The company has offices in 52 countries and over 225,944 employees. The Client is a global IT services and consulting company that offers a wide range of services and products across various industries like IT Infrastructure Services, Cybersecurity Services, Cloud Services, Big Data and Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions, Semiconductor Services and Enterprise Software Products. About The Job:

- Experience: 5-7.5 Years
- We are seeking an experienced Grafana Lead (L2) to own and manage the enterprise Grafana platform.
- The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and governing dashboards, reports, alerts, and visualization standards across infrastructure, cloud, application, database, and business service monitoring environments.
- The role requires strong expertise in Grafana administration, dashboard engineering, data visualization, user access management, datasource integrations, and platform optimization.
- The candidate will act as the technical lead for Grafana deployments and work closely with operations, engineering, application, and business teams to provide actionable insights through monitoring dashboards and reporting solutions.

Essential Job Functions:

- Lead the administration, governance, and lifecycle management of the Grafana platform.
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise dashboards for infrastructure, applications, databases, cloud platforms, and business services.
- Establish dashboard development standards, naming conventions, visualization guidelines, and reporting best practices.
- Gather monitoring and reporting requirements from stakeholders and convert them into meaningful dashboards and visualizations.
- Define and implement role-based access control (RBAC), user management, folder structures, and dashboard permissions.
- Develop executive-level operational dashboards and KPI reporting views.
- Manage Grafana alerts, notification channels, alert escalation policies, and dashboard health monitoring.
- Ensure platform availability, performance optimization, scalability, and security compliance.
- Drive dashboard standardization and eliminate duplicate or redundant monitoring views.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Grafana administrators and monitoring engineers.
- Create and maintain platform documentation, SOPs, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles.

Qualifications:

Core Technical Expectations

- Grafana Platform Administration
- Installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of Grafana environments.
- Management of organizations, teams, users, roles, permissions, and folder structures.




- Configuration of authentication methods including LDAP, Active Directory, SSO, OAuth, and SAML.
- Performance tuning and optimization of Grafana environments.
- Platform backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.

- Dashboard Development & Visualization

- Design and develop interactive dashboards for various technology domains.
- Build customized charts, graphs, tables, gauges, heatmaps, and trend analysis dashboards.
- Develop business-focused KPIs and operational reporting dashboards.
- Implement dashboard templates and reusable visualization components.
- Ensure dashboard usability, consistency, and standardization across the organization.

- Data Source Integration

- Configure and manage Grafana data sources.
- Integrate Grafana with SQL Server.
- Integrate Grafana with MySQL.
- Integrate Grafana with PostgreSQL.
- Integrate Grafana with Oracle Database.
- Integrate Grafana with Elasticsearch.
- Integrate Grafana with Splunk.
- Integrate Grafana with Azure Monitor.
- Integrate Grafana with AWS Monitoring Services.
- Integrate Grafana with Third-Party Monitoring Tools.
- Troubleshoot datasource connectivity and data retrieval issues.
- Optimize query performance and dashboard response times.

- Alerting & Reporting

- Configure Grafana Alerting and notification workflows.
- Create threshold-based monitoring and alert mechanisms.
- Develop scheduled reports and executive reporting dashboards.
- Generate service health reports, availability metrics, and performance reporting.
- Support operational teams with monitoring analytics and reporting requirements.

Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Grafana administration and dashboard development.
- Expertise in dashboard engineering, data visualization, and reporting.
- Deep understanding of monitoring concepts, KPIs, SLAs, and operational reporting.
- Experience integrating Grafana with multiple enterprise data sources.
- Knowledge of authentication and access management within Grafana.
- Strong SQL query writing and data analysis capabilities.
- Experience with Linux and Windows environments.
- Familiarity with API-based integrations and data retrieval methods.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading technical teams and managing enterprise monitoring platforms.

Preferred Skills




- Grafana Enterprise experience.
- Knowledge of IT Infrastructure Monitoring.
- Exposure to Cloud Monitoring platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Experience with ServiceNow integrations.
- Understanding of ITSM processes.
- Knowledge of Capacity Management, Availability Reporting, and SLA Monitoring.
- Exposure to observability and monitoring transformation programs.
- Experience working in large enterprise environments.

Leadership Expectations
- Act as the technical owner of the Grafana platform.
- Define Grafana governance, standards, and implementation best practices.
- Mentor team members and provide technical leadership.
- Drive continuous service improvement initiatives for monitoring and reporting.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to improve operational visibility through dashboards and analytics.
- Ensure platform stability, scalability, and business alignment.

Education / Certifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Preferred Certifications
- Grafana Certified Professional.
- Grafana Enterprise Certifications.
- ITIL Foundation.
- Cloud Certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).
- Monitoring & Observability Certifications.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.

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If you're not available or interested in this opportunity, please pass this along to anyone in your network who might be a good fit and interested in our open positions. VARITE offers a Candidate Referral program, where you'll receive a one-time referral bonus based on the following scale if the referred candidate completes a three-month assignment with VARITE.

Experience Level Bonus Referral: 0-2 years INR 5,000 2-6 years INR 7,500 6+ years INR 10,000

About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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