Job Description

About the job

The CIS Observability and Monitoring (O&M) Engineering team is looking for a Datadog Engineer – Remote or Hybrid to develop and deliver enterprise-wide Datadog solutions to meet the current and future needs for all of SAS Institute, Inc.

As a Datadog Engineer, you will:

• Gather requirements from various SAS business units.
• Participate in the planning, design, development, testing, and troubleshooting Datadog features.
• Provide support, including user and operational problems, documentation, customization, and utilization of Datadog features.
• Work closely with technology partners on integrations.
• Define and promote monitoring best practices across the organization.
• Assist with special projects, as assigned, in design, implementation, transition, and operational roles.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of Datadog experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Proven track record of designing, delivering, and administering Datadog solutions.
• Experience developing and delivering monitoring configurations as code
• Experience instrumenting Datadog in container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and modern application development practices.
• Willingness to be a member of an on call rotation.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Datadog certification achievements
• Experience with Datadog RUM and APM capabilities.

• Experience working on an Agile development team.

• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Working knowledge of ServiceNow ITOM Event Management and ITIL concepts

• Knowledge of other monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Grafana, ELK stack, New Relic, etc.
• General knowledge of networking and firewalls

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