Looking for Sr. Datadog Architect - Remote
Afreen Saifi
My name is Afreen and I am a Senior Technical Recruiter at eTeam Inc. eTeam is a global contingency staffing firm servicing fortune 1000 clients across North America, Europe, and Asia. We have an excellent job opportunity with one of our clients. Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either because your resume had been posted to one of the job boards to which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to eTeam Inc. I wanted to connect with you to see if you are looking for a new employment opportunity or are open to a new opportunity in near future.
100% Remote
Job Description:
Architecture & Design
- Design end-to-end observability architecture using Datadog across cloud Azure, containers, Kubernetes, and on-prem workloads.
- Define monitoring standards, SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerting strategy, and tagging governance.
- Design and Architect end to end solution to integrate Mainframe platforms
- Architect log ingestion pipelines, retention policies, and cost-optimized indexing strategies.
- Build scalable APM instrumentation patterns for microservices, serverless, and distributed environments.
- Deploy Datadog agents, integrations, and custom checks across large-scale infrastructure.
- Configure APM, RUM, Logs, SIEM, Synthetics, Network Performance Monitoring, and CI/CD Observability.
- Work closely with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Application teams to instrument services and ensure visibility.
- Analyze and optimize Datadog costs: usage, retention settings, indexing, and billing insights.
- Establish organization-wide tagging standards, dashboards, alerting guardrails, and onboarding processes.
- Create reusable templates, Terraform modules, and automation scripts for Datadog deployment.
- Ensure compliance with security and observability best practices.
- Mentor teams on Datadog usage, training engineers on dashboards, logs, traces, and alerts.
- Lead RCA investigations using Datadog metrics, traces, logs, and correlated events.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability, resilience, and performance.
- Identify gaps in observability and propose improvements across the stack.
- 12 years in Observability, Monitoring, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/Azure/GCP cloud services.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Strong knowledge of APM, Metrics, Logs, RUM, Synthetics, and Security Monitoring.
- Deep experience with Datadog dashboards, alerting, monitors, service maps, event correlation, and notebooks.
- Proficiency with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Datadog Certifications (Datadog Fundamentals, APM, Log Management, or Observability).
- Experience with Retail for observability tools.
- CI/CD observability experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc).
- Background in Performance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
Thank you,
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Afreen Saifi (linkedin.com/in/afreen-s) Sr. Technical Recruiter Direct: +1
732-627-1018
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