Bengaluru, Karnataka
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:
Infrastructure Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Log Management
Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Network Performance Monitoring
Cloud Security Monitoring
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

Solid hands-on experience with Datadog administration and platform management.

Expertise in:
Datadog APM
Infrastructure Monitoring
Log Management
Dashboard Development
Alert Configuration
Synthetic Monitoring
RUM
Service Mapping
Custom Metrics

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
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📌 Senior Technical Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Bengaluru