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