AI Observ. & Telemetry Engr

Job Summary

Datadog Administrator with over 5 years of hands-on Datadog experience and over 8 years of overall experience in IT operations DevOps or SRE. You will own the administration configuration and optimization of our Datadog platform across infrastructure APM logs and digital experience monitoring. You will partner with engineering and operations teams to onboard services build actionable monitors and dashboards and reduce alert noise.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Administer the Datadog platform including users roles teams API and app keys and SSO and SAML with RBAC and audit controls.

Deploy and manage Datadog Agents across Linux Windows containers and Kubernetes Helm Operator DaemonSet.

Configure and maintain integrations for AWS Azure GCP databases middleware and message queues.

Design tune and maintain monitors such as metric anomaly composite and SLO to improve signal quality and reduce alert fatigue.

Integrate alerting with PagerDuty ServiceNow Slack Teams and Jira.

Build and standardize dashboards notebooks and SLIs and SLOs with service owners.

Instrument applications for APM and distributed tracing in Java DotNet Python NodeJS and Go.

Configure log pipelines parsing indexing exclusion filters archives and log based metrics.

Support Synthetics RUM Network Performance Monitoring and Security Monitoring features.

Monitor usage and billing and manage metric cardinality log volumes and host counts to optimize cost.

Manage Datadog as code using Terraform and APIs and automate admin tasks with Python Bash or PowerShell.

Define tagging standards and onboarding runbooks serve as L2 and L3 support train teams and participate in incident response and on call.

Required Qualifications

Over 8 years of overall IT experience including over 5 years administering Datadog in production

Strong knowledge of Datadog Infrastructure APM Logs Synthetics RUM and Monitors

Hands on experience with Kubernetes such as EKS AKS or GKE and at least one major cloud platform

Proficiency in Terraform or similar IaC plus scripting in Python Bash or PowerShell

Experience integrating with ITSM and alerting tools such as ServiceNow PagerDuty and Opsgenie

Experience with OpenTelemetry

Experience migrating from Splunk

Familiarity with CI and CD tool

Certifications Required

Preferred Qualifications

Datadog certification