Roles and Responsibilities :

: Observability SME SRE Datadog Azure Automation

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Observability SME Site Reliability Engineer who will drive endtoend observability strategy monitoring automation and reliability engineering across a hybrid environment Azure OnPrem The ideal candidate must have deep expertise in Datadog administration and configuration handson experience in Azure services and strong automation skills using Terraform GitHub Actions and PowerShell

This role will be responsible for designing observability standards implementing automated monitoring deployments ensuring platform reliability and enabling proactive incident detection remediation

Key Responsibilities

Observability Datadog Primary Focus

Act as the Subject Matter Expert SME for Datadog owning platform administration configurations access control and best practices

Design implement and maintain observability standards across applications infrastructure APIs and data platforms

Automate Datadog agent deployment configurations dashboards alerts synthetics log pipelines and APM instrumentation using

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Set up and optimize monitoring for Azure services including but not limited to

AKS Azure Kubernetes Service

App Services

Function Apps

Virtual Machines

API Management

Databricks

Azure SQL

Define SLOs SLIs error budgets logging standards and distributed tracing patterns

Site Reliability Engineering

Drive operational excellence through automation performance tuning and reliability improvements





Build automated workflows for incident diagnosis remediation and recoveryinitially in Azure using PowerShell

Implement proactive monitoring to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence of incidents

Partner with application platform and cloud engineering teams to enable observability and SRE best practices

Lead root cause analysis RCA create improvement plans and ensure closure of action items

Automation Infrastructure as Code

Develop modular reusable Terraform modules for Datadog monitoring Azure resources and logging pipelines

Implement continuous deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions for observability components

Maintain version control practices branching strategies and peer review processes

Technical Skills Required

Mandatory

Datadog SMElevel experience Administration agent configuration integration setup dashboards monitors alerts synthetics log pipelines APM RUM

Azure Cloud experience specifically

AKS

Azure App Services

Function Apps

Virtual Machines

API Management

Databricks

Azure SQL Server

Automation IaC

Solid experience with Terraform

GitHub Actions CICD pipelines

PowerShell scripting for automation

Experience with hybrid environments Azure On Prem

Good to Have

Experience with YAML pipelines ARMBicep optional

Understanding of networking load balancing DNS certificates

Experience with SRE concepts like chaos engineering reliability patterns

Experience Required

1012 years of total experience in Cloud DevOps SRE or Observability roles

Minimum 3 years of handson Datadog experience

Minimum 2 years working with Azure cloud workloads

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