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About the Role We are looking for an experienced Datadog Administrator / Observability Engineer with 8+ years of overall IT experience. This role focuses on designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using Datadog. Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, administer, and maintain enterprise-scale Datadog environments • Configure and manage Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Log Management, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Synthetic Monitoring, and Network Performance Monitoring • Build and maintain Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, SLOs, and custom metrics • Install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot Datadog Agents across Linux, Windows, containers, and cloud platforms • Integrate Datadog with AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and other enterprise platforms • Implement monitoring for Kubernetes clusters, containers, microservices, APIs, and distributed applications • Configure log collection, parsing, pipelines, indexing, retention, and correlation • Configure APM tracing and troubleshoot application performance issues using distributed traces, metrics, and logs • Define monitoring standards, alert thresholds, tagging strategies, and observability best practices • Automate Datadog configuration and deployment using Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or CI/CD pipelines • Configure integrations with incident-management and collaboration platforms such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira, Microsoft Teams, and Slack • Perform troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and monitoring optimization • Manage Datadog users, teams, RBAC, API keys, application keys, and access controls • Optimize Datadog usage, telemetry volume, log ingestion, custom metrics, and associated monitoring costs • Work closely with application, cloud, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and security teams • Prepare operational documentation, SOPs, architecture diagrams, and troubleshooting runbooks Requirements • 8+ years of overall IT experience, preferably with significant experience in monitoring, observability, DevOps, or SRE • Strong hands-on expertise in Datadog administration • Strong knowledge of APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, monitors, and SLOs • Experience with Linux and Windows administration • Good knowledge of AWS / Azure / GCP monitoring environments • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container monitoring • Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Shell/Bash, or PowerShell