Job Description

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Datadog Administrator with 8+ years of IT experience and strong expertise in monitoring, observability, cloud infrastructure, and platform administration. The candidate will be responsible for administering and optimizing the Datadog platform, ensuring end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and business-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and manage the Datadog platform across enterprise environments.
• Configure and maintain Datadog agents, integrations, monitors, dashboards, and alerts.
• Manage Datadog modules including:
• Create and maintain monitoring standards, alerting policies, and escalation workflows.
• Integrate Datadog with cloud platforms, containerized environments, and third-party tools.
• Perform health checks, capacity planning, and platform optimization.
• Troubleshoot monitoring gaps, performance issues, and data ingestion problems.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and Application teams.
• Implement monitoring automation using Terraform, APIs, and scripting.
• Ensure monitoring compliance, governance, and best practices across the organization.
• Develop operational documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base articles.

Required Skills

Datadog Administration

• Strong hands-on experience with Datadog administration and platform management.
• Expertise in:

Cloud Technologies

• AWS, Azure, or GCP administration experience.
• Cloud monitoring and observability implementation.

Containers & DevOps

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• OpenShift (Preferred)
• CI/CD Tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab)

Automation & Scripting

• Terraform
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• REST APIs

Monitoring Tools (Good to Have)

• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• AppDynamics
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• ELK Stack

Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 8+ years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on Datadog administration experience.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and IT operations.
• Experience supporting large-scale production environments.
• Excellent incident troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills.

Other Requirements