Kubernetes
Grafana
Prometheus
Senior Observability Architect
Overview
Grafana is evolving to create an elite team that will redefine post sales technical partnership in the industry: the Senior Observability Architect. In this role, you’ll pioneer this new function. It’s an exciting opportunity to help drive a transformation of our Customer Experience organization.
Job Description
Grafana Labs is a company that helps more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack.
Responsibilities
- - Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a portfolio of clients
- - Design the observability maturity journey of customers and assist them on that path
- - Provide expert-level troubleshooting and guidance to drive adoption
- - Assist clients with implementation, configuration, and optimization
- - Conduct regular technical reviews and health checks to ensure client success
- - Assist in RCA
- - Participate in onboarding and customer activation
- - Advise clients on best practices and strategies for leveraging our technology to achieve their business goals
- - Participate in services delivery rotation to keep skills current
- - Collaborate with clients to develop and execute technical roadmaps
- - Identify opportunities for clients to optimize their cost, expand their use of our solutions and drive adoption of new features
- - Assist in delivering PS engagements on a rotation to keep skills current
- - Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key stakeholders
- - With the support of our Engagement Managers and Onboarding Solutions Architects, own customer lifecycle
- - Be responsible for consumption, retention and expansion within your portfolio
- - Act as the voice of the customer within the company, advocating for their needs, priorities and feature requests
- - Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate clients on our technology
- - Develop and deliver technical documentation, guides, and tutorials
- - Work alongside account teams to participate in and/or conduct regular reviews with customers to identify areas for improvement, calculate ROI, assess their satisfaction, and discuss upcoming needs and projects
- - Prepare and present reports on client metrics, achievements, and areas of focus
Required Skills
- - Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Math or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- - Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes
- - 5+ years of experience in a technical support, technical account management, consulting, SE or Professional Services role within the technology industry
- - Strong understanding of observability solutions
- - Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki a plus
- - Proven ability to manage multiple clients and projects simultaneously
- - Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- - Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- - Experience with relevant tools and technologies, e.g., CRM software, ticketing systems, specific programming languages
- - Ability to travel as needed to meet with clients (up to 25%)
Benefits
- - Equity
- - Bonus (if applicable)
- - Other benefits listed on our careers page
About the company
Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.