Remote Opportunity - Datadog Architect

Datadog Architect

Remote role.

Length: 1 year.

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.

Implementation & Optimization

• 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.

Governance & Best Practices

• 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.

Troubleshooting & Insights

• 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.

Required Skills & Experience

• 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/Google Cloud Platform 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.