Job Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled Datadog Administrator with 8+ years of IT experience and strong expertise in monitoring, observability, cloud infrastructure, and platform administration. The candidate will be responsible for administering and optimizing the Datadog platform, ensuring end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and business-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and manage the Datadog platform across enterprise environments.
- Configure and maintain Datadog agents, integrations, monitors, dashboards, and alerts.
- Manage Datadog modules including:
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Log Management
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Network Performance Monitoring
- Cloud Security Monitoring
- Create and maintain monitoring standards, alerting policies, and escalation workflows.
- Integrate Datadog with cloud platforms, containerized environments, and third-party tools.
- Perform health checks, capacity planning, and platform optimization.
- Troubleshoot monitoring gaps, performance issues, and data ingestion problems.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and Application teams.
- Implement monitoring automation using Terraform, APIs, and scripting.
- Ensure monitoring compliance, governance, and best practices across the organization.
- Develop operational documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base articles.
Required Skills
Datadog Administration
- Strong hands-on experience with Datadog administration and platform management.
- Expertise in:
- Datadog APM
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Management
- Dashboard Development
- Alert Configuration
- Synthetic Monitoring
- RUM
- Service Mapping
- Custom Metrics
Cloud Technologies
- AWS, Azure, or GCP administration experience.
- Cloud monitoring and observability implementation.
Containers & DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- OpenShift (Preferred)
- CI/CD Tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab)
Automation & Scripting
- Terraform
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- REST APIs
Monitoring Tools (Good to Have)
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- AppDynamics
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- ELK Stack
Skill Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
- 8+ years of overall IT experience.
- Minimum 4+ years of hands-on Datadog administration experience.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and IT operations.
- Experience supporting large-scale production environments.
- Excellent incident troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills.