Our client, a large professional services firm, is looking to hire a Senior Observability Engineer for a 200-hour remote project. The project is projecting 25-40 hours per week for 5 to 7 weeks. The consultant will support a short-term Grafana-based observability migration proof of concept. The resource should have hands-on experience with Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry Collector and/or Grafana Alloy, and potentially Logstash. The consultant should be comfortable collecting, parsing, normalizing, and validating log data and network telemetry from infrastructure devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, and other network appliances. The work will include supporting collector deployment, syslog ingestion, telemetry collection, dashboard validation, troubleshooting, documentation, and handoff for a multi-site proof of concept.
Required Skills
- Hands-on Grafana dashboard and data source experience
- Experience with Grafana Loki and LogQL
- Experience deploying and configuring OpenTelemetry Collector
- Grafana Alloy experience preferred
- Logstash experience preferred, especially syslog parsing, Grok, filtering, and normalization
- Experience collecting syslog from network devices
- Experience with Cisco or similar network device log formats
- Experience collecting network telemetry such as CPU, memory, uptime, interface status, bandwidth, errors, discards, device health, and alarms
- Familiarity with SNMP, syslog, network device CLI configuration, and collector-based monitoring
- Ability to troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, dropped logs, pipeline health, and telemetry flow issues
- Experience with monitoring/logging migrations, ideally involving Splunk, LogicMonitor, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry
- Ability to document configuration, validation results, known issues, and handoff notes