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.