Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description :

Job Title : Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Datadog Observability.

Experience Required : 8+ years overall in SRE and Infrastructure Operations with minimum 3+ years hands-on experience in Datadog.

Location : Hyderabad preferable but open for Pune and remote.

Job Summary :

The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in building reliable, scalable, and observable systems, with hands-on experience in integrating enterprise applications and middleware.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, configure, and manage Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, and APM for proactive issue detection and resolution.

- Utilize the Datadog Roles API to create and manage user roles, global permissions, and access controls for various teams.

- Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to identify

observability gaps and design solutions using Datadog.

- Implement automation for alerting, incident response, and ticket creation to improve operational efficiency.

- Work closely with business and IT teams to support critical Financial Month-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End closures.

- Leverage Datadog AI.

- Provide technical leadership in observability, reliability, and performance engineering practices.

Required Skills And Experience :

- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog (dashboards, APM, alerting, log

management, Roles API, and monitoring setup).

- Proven experience implementing SRE best practices - incident management, postmortems,

automation, and reliability metrics.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; experience collaborating with

business and IT teams.

- Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work in high-pressure production support

environments.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Certification in Datadog or related observability platforms.

- Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or OCI).

- Exposure to ITIL-based production support processes.