Senior Observability Engineer (Grafana) - 10+ Years - Pharma exp required - Long Term Contract

Role Description The Senior Observability Engineer (Grafana) will design, implement, and optimize observability solutions to support mission-critical pharmaceutical and life sciences IT systems. This long-term contract role focuses on building and maintaining dashboards in Grafana, integrating data from diverse monitoring tools, and ensuring end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and services. Day-to-day responsibilities include defining observability standards, configuring alerting and incident workflows, collaborating with cross-functional engineering and operations teams, and contributing to performance tuning and root-cause analysis. The role is based in Mumbai in a hybrid model, combining on-site collaboration with flexibility for some work-from-home. The position requires a hands-on senior engineer with more than 10 years of experience and strong domain exposure to pharma environments, regulations, and compliance-driven operations.
Qualifications
Extensive experience (4+ years) in observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering, including hands-on expertise with Grafana for dashboarding, visualization, and alerting.
Strong background in monitoring stacks and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Loki, or similar) and integrating data sources, logs, metrics, and traces into unified observability platforms.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructures (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and performance tuning in complex environments.
Proven experience working in pharmaceutical or regulated healthcare IT environments, with familiarity in validation, audit readiness, governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, security, and operations teams to translate business and technical requirements into observability solutions.
Proficiency with scripting or programming (such as Python, Bash, or similar) to automate

Work arrangement
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