Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Mindera is hiring a Senior Observability Engineer (Grafana + Python)

About the Role

Mindera is looking for a Senior Observability Engineer to lead telemetry, monitoring, and automation efforts across our cloud-native infrastructure. You will shape the observability strategy, build real-time dashboards, and automate alerting pipelines to ensure high system availability and performance.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and maintain Grafana dashboards for real-time infrastructure and application monitoring.
  • Build and enhance Python-based automation tools for telemetry data processing, health checks, and alerts.
  • Integrate observability solutions with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and proactive alerting mechanisms.
  • Collaborate with SREs, DevOps, and developers to improve monitoring coverage and incident response.
  • Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD workflows using Python, Git, and DevOps tools.
  • Lead tool selection, observability best practices, and adoption across engineering teams.

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in observability, DevOps, or SRE roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Grafana, including templating, alerting, and data source integration.
  • Proficient in Python scripting for automation and data processing.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, tracing, and telemetry pipelines.

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to tools like Loki, OpenTelemetry, ArgoCD, or Terraform.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
  • Knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
  • Ability to design cost-efficient monitoring solutions and dashboards.

Technical Stack

  • Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, OpenTelemetry, Loki
  • Automation & Scripting: Python, Git
  • Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, Terraform, ArgoCD
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions

Team & Environment

We use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. Our culture is built on lean and self-organisation principles, encouraging colleagues to take risks, make decisions, and work collaboratively in an agile environment.

Benefits & Compensation

  • A fun, happy, and politics-free work culture built on lean and self-organisation principles.
  • Opportunity to work with large-scale systems powering global businesses.
  • Competitive salary and benefits.
Required Skills
GrafanaPythonAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsPrometheusKubernetesOpenTelemetryLokiArgoCDTerraformObservabilityMonitoringLoggingInfrastructure as CodeCloud Infrastructure
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Mindera
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. We partner with clients to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.
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Category infrastructure
Posted 9 months ago