Prometheus Engineer

Responsibilities

• Stack Management: Deploy, configure, and maintain the core observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Loki.
• Dashboarding & Visualization: Collaborate with engineering teams to design and build comprehensive Grafana dashboards for application and infrastructure health monitoring.
• Alerting Strategy: Configure and fine-tune Alertmanager rules to ensure accurate, actionable alerts while minimizing alert fatigue.
• Log Management: Architect and manage centralized logging solutions using Loki to ensure efficient log aggregation and querying.
• System Optimization: Monitor the performance of the observability stack itself, optimizing resource usage and scaling infrastructure as needed.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and integrate modern observability tools (such as VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs) to enhance system correlation and analysis capabilities.
• Experience: 9+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Observability roles.
• Core Stack: Deep technical expertise in Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Loki (PLG Stack).
• Automation: Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Infrastructure & OS: Strong working knowledge of Linux/Unix administration.
• Containerization: Experience monitoring containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Technical requirements

• Hands-on knowledge or prior exposure to VictoriaMetrics (for scalable time-series data) and VictoriaLogs.
• Experience with distributed tracing tools (e.g., Jaeger, Tempo, or VictoriaTraces).
• Understanding of service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs).

Additional responsibilities

Location of posting: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune

Preferred skills

Technology->Server-Virtualization->OpenStack

Education

Bachelor of Engineering