Monitoring & Observability Engineer - Datadog

Job Title : Monitoring & Observability Engineer Datadog Specialist

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : [Specify Location or Remote]

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Summary :

Key Responsibilities :

- Set up dashboards, monitors, and alerts to proactively detect and resolve system issues.

- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and application teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and KPIs for performance monitoring.

- Integrate Datadog with services such as AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and logging tools.

- Conduct performance tuning and root cause analysis of production incidents.

- Automate observability processes using infrastructure-as-code and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python).

- Stay up-to-date with the latest features and best practices in Datadog and observability space.

Must-Have Skills :

- Strong experience with Datadog APM, infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics, and dashboards

- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Experience monitoring Kubernetes, containers, and microservices

- Good knowledge of log management, tracing, and alert tuning

- Proficient with scripting (Python, Shell) and IaC tools (Terraform preferred)

- Solid understanding of DevOps/SRE practices and incident management

Nice-to-Have Skills :

- Experience integrating Datadog with CI/CD tools, ticketing systems, and chatops

- Familiarity with other monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk)

- Knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6)