Datadog Architect

Skills

Description

Total IT experience 6+ years
Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience with Datadog
Experience in alternative products like Dynatrace set up in critical production environments
Has experience working with AWS hosted applications and services
Experience using observability dashboards particularly centered around APM
Experience with Ansible automation on production and non-production environments
Working knowledge of coding .NET applications and log frameworks

Responsibilities

• Expert level knowledge on Datadog integration with agents as well as APM and RUM
• Ability to convert existing ElasticSearch Grok patterns and filters to Datadog and set up a new forwarder
• Proficient in AWS, particularly CloudWatch, CloudTrail and EC2
• Ability to deploy Datadog agents across on-prem and cloud-hosted instances
• Understand how to build observability into monolithing applications to expose telemetry via the OpenTelemetry SDK or Zipkin traces
• Understand the customer service requirement to define and create service level objectives (SLO’s) as well as corresponding dashboards
• Strong knowledge of Ansible and Powershell to automate deployment of Datadog agents
• Experienced in running R&D labs as well as incubating new solutions
• Strong grasp of 4 Golden Signals, MELT and RED approaches to observability
• Creating actionable dashboards and associated alerts based on thresholds using Datadog
• Ability to write IaC using Terraform or Packer