Job Summary
Datadog Administrator with over 5 years of hands-on Datadog experience and over 8 years of overall experience in IT operations DevOps or SRE. You will own the administration configuration and optimization of our Datadog platform across infrastructure APM logs and digital experience monitoring. You will partner with engineering and operations teams to onboard services build actionable monitors and dashboards and reduce alert noise.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Administer the Datadog platform including users roles teams API and app keys and SSO and SAML with RBAC and audit controls.
Deploy and manage Datadog Agents across Linux Windows containers and Kubernetes Helm Operator DaemonSet.
Configure and maintain integrations for AWS Azure GCP databases middleware and message queues.
Design tune and maintain monitors such as metric anomaly composite and SLO to improve signal quality and reduce alert fatigue.
Integrate alerting with PagerDuty ServiceNow Slack Teams and Jira.
Build and standardize dashboards notebooks and SLIs and SLOs with service owners.
Instrument applications for APM and distributed tracing in Java DotNet Python NodeJS and Go.
Configure log pipelines parsing indexing exclusion filters archives and log based metrics.
Support Synthetics RUM Network Performance Monitoring and Security Monitoring features.
Monitor usage and billing and manage metric cardinality log volumes and host counts to optimize cost.
Manage Datadog as code using Terraform and APIs and automate admin tasks with Python Bash or PowerShell.
Define tagging standards and onboarding runbooks serve as L2 and L3 support train teams and participate in incident response and on call.
Required Qualifications
Over 8 years of overall IT experience including over 5 years administering Datadog in production
Strong knowledge of Datadog Infrastructure APM Logs Synthetics RUM and Monitors
Hands on experience with Kubernetes such as EKS AKS or GKE and at least one major cloud platform
Proficiency in Terraform or similar IaC plus scripting in Python Bash or PowerShell
Experience integrating with ITSM and alerting tools such as ServiceNow PagerDuty and Opsgenie
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Experience migrating from Splunk
Familiarity with CI and CD tool
Certifications Required
Preferred Qualifications
Datadog certification
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
