Senior Observability Engineer; Datadog
Listed on 2026-10-20
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability
Job Title: Senior Observability Engineer (Datadog).
Location: Remote (U.S.).
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through Zip Staff - No C2C or 1099).
About the OpportunityZip Staff is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer for the global technology estate of a major commercial real estate and facilities organization.
You will own Datadog across infra, apps, network, cloud, logs, and digital experience—plus automation (Rundeck, Ansible, Python) and AIOps. Datadog depth is the gate. One client interview; identity verification is required at submission.
What You’ll Do:- Build, configure, and optimize Datadog (infra, APM, network, cloud, logs, DEM).
- Create dashboards, monitors, alerts, integrations, SLIs, SLOs, and service-health views.
- Configure and troubleshoot Datadog agents, integrations, APIs, collectors, and telemetry pipelines.
- Automate onboarding, config, remediation, and ops with Rundeck, Ansible, Python, Power Shell, APIs, and Git.
- Practice observability-as-code.
- Tune AIOps: correlation, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, noise reduction, incident enrichment.
- Use AI/GenAI to speed troubleshooting and operational workflows.
- Integrate Datadog with Service Now, Rundeck, cloud, and CI/CD.
- Investigate issues from metrics, logs, traces, events, and network telemetry across APAC, AMER, and EMEA.
- 5-8+ years observability, monitoring, SRE, infrastructure, or APM.
- Strong hands-on Datadog in a large enterprise.
- Metrics, logs, traces, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs.
- Rundeck and Ansible.
- Scripting:
Python, Power Shell, or Bash. - REST APIs, webhooks, Git/Git Hub, CI/CD.
- Azure and/or AWS.
- Familiarity with IaC / config management.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
- Multiple Datadog domains (infra, APM, logs, NPM, cloud, DEM).
- AIOps and GenAI for ops.
- Reducing alert noise and telemetry cost.
- Datadog, AWS, Azure, or SRE certs.
- Global follow-the-sun collaboration.
Zip Staff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high-impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches, clear communication, and long-term success for candidates and clients.
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