Role :Sr. Datadog Engineer Contract Remote Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable monitoring solutions using Datadog across various infrastructure and application layers.
- Deepen expertise in Datadog tools and features, including metrics, logs, tracing, APM, and security monitoring.
- Experience with building an Observability Platform and integration with Datadog and similar products.
- Proactively identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues.
- Develop custom Dashboards and monitors to track key business metrics and SLAs.
- Automate monitoring tasks and alerting workflows for efficient incident management.
- Collaborate with developers and DevOps teams to optimize application performance and infrastructure health.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Datadog releases and best practices.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and training within the team.
- Participate in on-call rotations and actively resolve production incidents.
- Identify and propose improvements to the overall monitoring strategy and architecture.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer or similar role.
- 3+ years of experience with Datadog or similar monitoring platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies (Azure & AWS ).
- Experience with scripting languages like Python or Bash.
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Passion for continuous learning and staying up-to-date with technology trends.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Experience with security monitoring and incident response.
