Datadog Consultant

APN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive IT staffing and services company offering innovative business solutions to improve client business outcomes. We focus on high impact technology solutions in ServiceNow, Fullstack, Cloud & Data, and AI / ML. Due to our globally expanding service offerings we are seeking top-talent to join our teams and grow with us.

Datadog Consultant
Contract
Wichita, KS (Remote Option)

Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled Datadog Consultant to design, implement, and optimize observability solutions using Datadog's monitoring platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of system metrics, logs, traces, and APM, along with the ability to tailor Datadog implementations to business and technical requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess client environments and define observability goals.
• Design and implement Datadog monitoring for infrastructure, applications, and cloud services.
• Configure dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and monitors.
• Set up and optimize APM, logs, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetics, and integrations.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to ensure proactive incident detection and resolution.
• Train internal teams on Datadog usage and best practices.
• Perform performance tuning and cost optimization for Datadog environments.
• Stay up to date with new Datadog features and industry trends.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where individuals from all backgrounds feel valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We strongly encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences to join our team and help us build a culture of belonging.