Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Datadog Administrator with 7+ years of IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability, SRE and strong expertise in Datadog platform administration. The candidate will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and scaling Datadog monitoring solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring high availability, operational excellence, and proactive incident management
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support the Datadog platform including Agents, Integrations, Dashboards, Monitors, Alerts, and SLOs.
- Design and implement monitoring solutions for applications, databases, cloud services, and Kubernetes environments.
- Configure and optimize:
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Log Management
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Network Performance Monitoring
- Cloud Security & SIEM
- Create operational dashboards, executive reports, and monitoring standards.
- Fine-tune alerting policies to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident response efficiency.
- Manage log pipelines, parsing rules, retention policies, indexing, and archives.
- Integrate Datadog with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Automate Datadog configurations using APIs, Terraform, and scripting tools.
- Support incident investigations, root cause analysis, and performance troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Security, and Application teams.
- Monitor Datadog licensing utilization and optimize platform costs.
- Establish governance, tagging standards, best practices, and monitoring framework
Skill Requirements
- Required Skills
- 7+ years of experience in Monitoring, Operations, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Administration.
- 3+ years of hands-on Datadog administration experience.
- Strong expertise in:
- Metrics, Logs, Traces
- Dashboards & Monitors
- Alerting & Notification Policies
- SLI/SLO/SLA Management
- Distributed Tracing
- APM & RUM
- Experience with:
- AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Linux & Windows Administration
- Networking & Security Monitoring
- REST APIs
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Shell scripting.
- Experience integrating Datadog with:
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
- Slack
- CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Harness.
Preferred Qualifications
- Datadog Certified Professional/Administrator.
- Experience with Cloud Security Monitoring and SIEM.
- Knowledge of SRE practices and Observability frameworks.
- Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring environments.
- Exposure to FinOps and monitoring cost optimization.
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior