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
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.
Additional employment information
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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, state or local laws.
