Graffana ELK Software Development Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Graffana ELK Software Development Lead

Duration : Full Time Location : Pittsburgh, PA

Work Mode : 5 Days Onsite

Years Of Exp : 8+ Yrs Job Description: Looking for Graffana ELK Software Development Lead to join our Applications Development and Maintenance team, supporting our client which is a large US Bank, working in an advanced technology environment. Duties and Responsibilities:

• As a Graffana ELK Software development Lead, you will be responsible for leading the
• design, development, and implementation of enterprise observability and monitoring solutions using Grafana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK)
• Architect scalable logging, monitoring, alerting, and visualization frameworks to provide end-to-end visibility into application, infrastructure, and business-critical systems.
• Drive the development and optimization of centralized log management platforms using Elasticsearch and Logstash, ensuring high availability, detecting anomalies and data retention compliance.
• Design and develop interactive Grafana dashboards, reports, and real-time monitoring
• solutions to support operational intelligence, performance analysis, and executive reporting.
• Develop and maintain automated alerting strategies using Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and integrated monitoring tools to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune Kafka streaming jobs to improve performance, scalability, and operational reliability.
• Collaborate with architects, data engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders to design and implement modern streaming and event-driven data platforms.
• Analyzing user requirements, and defines technical project scope and assumptions for assigned tasks.
• Creating technical designs for new systems, and/or modifications to existing systems.
• Translating detailed requirements into functional system designs.
• Prioritizing work, meeting deadline and also establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with clients, project team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments.
• Partner with business leaders, enterprise architects, and product owners to identify new graph-based use cases, evaluate emerging technologies, and align Neo4j initiatives with digital transformation goals.

Requirements:

• At least 8+ years of experience in software development, observability engineering, monitoring platforms, or enterprise logging solutions, with demonstrated leadership experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Grafana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack), and related observability and monitoring technologies.
• Experience developing custom Grafana dashboards, visualizations, alerts, and reporting solutions for application, infrastructure, and business monitoring.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch, indexing strategies, shard management, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Good to have Kafka streaming knowledge along with relational databases
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills in distributed streaming environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience working in Agile development environments with strong collaboration, technical leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.

Required Skills

• Agile
• Apache Kafka
• Data Modeling
• Elastic Stack & Elasticsearch
• Structured Query Language (SQL)

Ref: #404-IT Pittsburgh