Senior Test Engineer

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 reliability—all while working onsite in Saudi Arabia for the duration of the engagement. Key Responsibilities • Dashboard Design & Development o Architect and develop Grafana dashboards for infrastructure, application performance, business KPIs, and operational monitoring. o Create reusable panels, variables, templating, and multi-tenanted dashboard structures. o Implement drill-downs, annotations, and role-based access to support different stakeholder views. • Data Source Integration o 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 o Set up alert rules, notification channels (email, Slack/Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie), and escalation policies. o Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to strengthen observability across logs, metrics, and traces. • Performance & Security o Tune Grafana performance, caching, data source query limits, and reduce panel load times. o Implement RBAC, data source permissions, folder structures, and comply with organizational security standards. • Documentation & Knowledge Transfer o Produce documentation (dashboard usage, data mappings, alert playbooks). o Conduct workshops and handover sessions for internal teams. • Stakeholder Collaboration o Translate business requirements into meaningful visualizations, acceptance criteria, and SLA-backed monitoring. Required Qualifications & Skills • 3–6+ years of experience in Grafana dashboarding and observability. • Strong hands-on with Prometheus/Prom