Datadog Engineer

Datadog Administrator / Observability Engineer
6+ month contract
Hybrid onsite in Fort Collins, CO 

Datadog Administrator / Observability Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Datadog Administrator to own and manage the organization's Datadog platform, including onboarding new applications, infrastructure, and teams into the observability ecosystem. This individual will serve as the primary subject matter expert for Datadog, ensuring monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing capabilities are properly configured and maintained across the environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end onboarding process for applications, services, and infrastructure into Datadog.
• Configure and maintain dashboards, monitors, alerts, logs, APM, and tracing solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and application teams to establish monitoring standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot Datadog Agent deployments and integrations across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Analyze metrics, logs, traces, and performance data to identify issues and improve system reliability.
• Manage Datadog user access, permissions, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations.
• Ensure observability solutions align with security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Develop documentation, onboarding procedures, and governance processes for Datadog usage.
• Support AWS integrations and monitoring strategies across cloud infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to observability, monitoring, and incident response.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and managing Datadog environments.
• Strong experience configuring dashboards, monitors, alerting, logging, and APM solutions within Datadog.
• Background in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring, observability, and operational best practices.
• Experience implementing and managing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and SaaS platform security.
• Ability to troubleshoot Datadog Agent deployments, integrations, and data collection issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience interpreting metrics, logs, and trace data.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with technical stakeholders across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible .
• Experience supporting Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation practices.
• Datadog certifications or equivalent observability platform experience.
• Experience establishing monitoring governance and operational standards in enterprise environments.