Datadog Administrator

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Datadog Administrator with 7+ years of IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability, SRE and strong expertise in Datadog platform administration. The candidate will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and scaling Datadog monitoring solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring high availability, operational excellence, and proactive incident management

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Administer and support the Datadog platform including Agents, Integrations, Dashboards, Monitors, Alerts, and SLOs.
Design and implement monitoring solutions for applications, databases, cloud services, and Kubernetes environments.
Configure and optimize:
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Log Management
Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Performance Monitoring
Cloud Security & SIEM
Create operational dashboards, executive reports, and monitoring standards.
Fine-tune alerting policies to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident response efficiency.
Manage log pipelines, parsing rules, retention policies, indexing, and archives.
Integrate Datadog with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Automate Datadog configurations using APIs, Terraform, and scripting tools.
Support incident investigations, root cause analysis, and performance troubleshooting.
Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Security, and Application teams.
Monitor Datadog licensing utilization and optimize platform costs.
Establish governance, tagging standards, best practices, and monitoring framework

Skill Requirements

Required Skills
7+ years of experience in Monitoring, Operations, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Administration.
3+ years of hands-on Datadog administration experience.
Strong expertise in:
Metrics, Logs, Traces
Dashboards & Monitors
Alerting & Notification Policies
SLI/SLO/SLA Management
Distributed Tracing
APM & RUM
Experience with:
AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes & Docker
Linux & Windows Administration
Networking & Security Monitoring
REST APIs
Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Shell scripting.
Experience integrating Datadog with:
Jira
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
Slack
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Harness.

Preferred Qualifications
Datadog Certified Professional/Administrator.
Experience with Cloud Security Monitoring and SIEM.
Knowledge of SRE practices and Observability frameworks.
Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring environments.
Exposure to FinOps and monitoring cost optimization.