AWS EKS & Datadog Engineer

Overview

On Site
$80,000 - $110,000
Full Time

Skills

AWS
AWS Distributed OpenTelemetry
ADOT+
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
EKS

Job Details

Position: AWS EKS & Datadog Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Duration: Fulltime Permanent

Day 1 Onsite

Years of exp Required: 6-12 Years

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

  • In depth experience configuring and administering EKS clusters in AWS.
  • In depth experience in configuring DataDog in AWS environments especially in EKS
  • In depth understanding of OpenTelemetry and configuration of OpenTelemetry Collectors
  • In depth knowledge of observability concepts and strong troubleshooting experience

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain AWS Distributed OpenTelemetry (ADOT) solutions for monitoring applications and infrastructure.
  • Deploy and manage Amazon EKS clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Develop and optimize tracing, logging, and metrics collection using OpenTelemetry in microservices architectures.
  • Integrate OpenTelemetry with AWS-native and third-party observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
  • Experience in distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin, X-Ray) and improving microservices performance.
  • Knowledge of multi-cluster Kubernetes management and hybrid cloud observability.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, ECS, Fargate, and containerized workloads.
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