Datadog Architect

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience with Datadog
• Has experience working with AWS hosted applications and services
• Experience using observability dashboards particularly centered around APM
• Experience with Ansible automation on production and non-production environments

Core Capabilities:

• Expert level knowledge on Datadog integration with agents as well as APM and RUM
• Ability to convert existing ElasticSearch Grok patterns and filters to Datadog and set up a new forwarder
• Proficient in AWS, particularly CloudWatch, CloudTrail and EC2
• Ability to deploy Datadog agents across on-prem and cloud-hosted instances
• Understand how to build observability into monolithing applications to expose telemetry via the OpenTelemetry SDK or Zipkin traces
• Understand the customer service requirement to define and create service level objectives (SLO’s) as well as corresponding dashboards
• Strong knowledge of Ansible and Powershell to automate deployment of Datadog agents
• Experienced in running R&D labs as well as incubating new solutions
• Strong grasp of 4 Golden Signals, MELT and RED approaches to observability
• Creating actionable dashboards and associated alerts based on thresholds using Datadog
• Ability to write IaC using Terraform or Packer

Qualification:

• Datadog Fundamentals certification or certification from any other product vendor
• AWS associate level certifications are a bonus, but not mandatory

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design the entire observability solution using Datadog for a .NET application and its infrastructure
• Conduct R&D activities in the form of labs on Datadog RUM, APM setup and Log consolidation
• Build integrations for observability into on-prem and cloud hosted applications using Datadog and ensure the deployment as well as continuous running of agents
• Instrument and expose traces from monolithic .NET applications
• Connecting telemetry data from cloud and on-prem applications into a single source of truth
• Direct liaison with the application architecture / design team to accept guidance around the application and ongoing migration to AWS
• Contribute towards improving the new logging standards set out by the design team based on feedback after integration with Datadog and alignment to observability standards
• Document the observability solution, guidance for new agent deployment, dashboard amendments and alert modifications
• Train a new team and hand over in-life maintenance of the Datadog solution built
• Test the entire solution for proper data flow and visibility of telemetry using the dashboards as well as common observability schema
• Perform an analysis of the uplifted ecosystem and suggest any improvements to the application / deployment architecture for self-healing capability via AIOps
• Build a fault-tolerant solution to automatically deploy new agents for any new instances provisioned

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $67,487.37 - $155,574.12 per year

Application Question(s):

• Are you Willing to relocate to client Location ?
• Are you willing to work on full time.
• What is your annual salary expectation?

Experience:

• Datadog: 5 years (Preferred)
• CloudWatch: 5 years (Preferred)
• CloudTrail: 5 years (Preferred)
• EC2: 5 years (Preferred)
• APM: 5 years (Preferred)
• RUM: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

Salary : $67,487 - $155,574