Choose the Right Cloud Native Experts with the Right Skills

Find the right talent with the right skills—no need for interviews or reviews; just pick from Beginner, Practitioner, or Expert levels.

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How InfraCloud Skill Rubrics help you?

Faster, better onboarding for cloud-native engineers starts with our skill rubrics

Save your Time

Eliminates the need to figure out the level of expertise required for your projects. With predefined competency levels and clear skill benchmarks, you can quickly identify the skills needed for your tasks—no guesswork involved.

Set Clear Expectations

Provides clear criteria for the skills required at each level, helping you set specific, measurable goals for each engineer. Everyone knows exactly what is expected, removing confusion and aligning performance with your goals.

Transparent Evaluation

By focusing on predefined criteria and a standardized system, the skill rubric approach helps eliminate biases often affecting traditional interviews, leading to more objective and fair talent assessment & early onboarding.

Get the Right Cloud Skills in Minutes, Not Days

No more trial and error. Select cloud professional with skills that align perfectly with your project

Practitioner

Knowledge & Understanding

  • Basic understanding of monitoring and logging concepts
  • Introduction to the PLG stack (Promtail, Loki, Grafana)
  • Understanding the architecture and components of each tool
  • Basic knowledge of time-series data and logs
  • Overview of querying languages: LogQL for Loki
  • Basic setup and configuration of Promtail, Loki, and Grafana
  • Basic concepts of system health monitoring

Skills

  • Install and configure Promtail for log collection
  • Set up Loki for log aggregation and connect it to Promtail and Grafana
  • Create basic dashboards and visualizations in Grafana
  • Use LogQL to query logs and extract key information
  • Collect and visualize basic system and application logs
  • Perform basic health checks using Grafana dashboards
  • Basic troubleshooting of setup and configuration issues

Performance

  • Successfully install and configure the PLG stack
  • Monitor and log basic system metrics and application logs
  • Create simple dashboards to visualize logs and metrics
  • Use basic queries to extract relevant information from Loki
  • Troubleshoot basic issues with setup and configuration
  • Perform initial health checks and identify basic issues using Grafana
  • Respond to simple alerts and perform initial investigations

Knowledge & Understanding

  • In-depth understanding of the PLG stack components and their interactions
  • Knowledge of advanced Loki configurations (e.g., log stream management, custom indexing, retention policies)
  • Familiarity with Promtail’s advanced configurations (e.g., scrape configs, pipeline stages, relabeling)
  • Proficiency with Grafana’s advanced visualization and dashboard capabilities
  • Understanding of Promtail’s role in log shipping and transformations
  • Knowledge of performance tuning and optimization for the PLG stack
  • Detailed understanding of system health monitoring and alerting
  • Understanding of application-specific metrics and logs (e.g., HTTP request rates, error rates)
  • Knowledge of Promtail scraping from different paths other than default
  • Creating metrics from logs in Loki

Skills

  • Configure advanced Loki features (e.g., log stream management, retention policies)
  • Implement advanced Promtail configurations (e.g., pipeline stages, relabeling, multi-target scraping, scraping logs from different paths)
  • Create complex Grafana dashboards with multiple data sources and visualizations
  • Optimize performance and storage for Loki
  • Implement security best practices for the PLG stack
  • Set up and configure comprehensive system health monitoring dashboards and alerts
  • Use Promtail and Loki to debug and resolve application issues efficiently
  • Develop and manage alerting strategies for proactive issue detection
  • Generate metrics from logs in Loki using queries and recording rules

Performance

  • Design and manage comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions using the PLG stack
  • Ensure high availability and performance of the PLG stack
  • Develop complex dashboards to provide insights into system and application performance
  • Use advanced queries to analyze logs effectively
  • Integrate the PLG stack with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
  • Maintain and troubleshoot the PLG stack in production environments
  • Continuously monitor system health and quickly respond to alerts
  • Efficiently debug and resolve application issues using the PLG stack tools
  • Implement proactive monitoring and alerting strategies to prevent downtime

Knowledge & Understanding

  • Expertise in the architecture, deployment, and scaling of the PLG stack
  • Deep understanding of Loki and Promtail internals
  • Knowledge of custom Promtail stages and advanced pipeline processing
  • Advanced knowledge of security, compliance, and data governance for monitoring and logging
  • Experience with multi-cluster and hybrid cloud deployments
  • Proficiency in performance tuning and capacity planning
  • Mastery of system health monitoring and proactive alerting strategies
  • Advanced understanding of application performance metrics and logging

Skills

  • Architect and deploy large-scale PLG stack solutions for enterprise environments
  • Develop custom Promtail pipeline stages and Loki plugins
  • Implement advanced security measures (e.g., TLS, authentication, authorization)
  • Design and manage multi-cluster and hybrid cloud PLG stack deployments
  • Optimize data retention, storage, and query performance
  • Lead incident response and troubleshooting for complex issues
  • Design and implement advanced health monitoring strategies
  • Use in-depth knowledge of LogQL to debug and resolve complex application issues
  • Implement advanced troubleshooting techniques and root cause analysis

Performance

  • Deliver robust, scalable, and secure monitoring and logging solutions for large enterprises
  • Provide expert-level guidance on performance tuning and capacity planning
  • Develop and implement custom solutions to extend PLG stack functionality
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
  • Lead complex incident response and troubleshooting efforts
  • Drive innovation and best practices for monitoring and logging within the organization
  • Proactively monitor and ensure system health with advanced techniques
  • Rapidly debug and resolve critical application issues using the PLG stack
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive logging frameworks and alerting systems
  • Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives

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