REMOTE - Enterprise Engineer V - Datadog

Monitoring Senior Engineer

The Monitoring Senior Engineer is responsible for managing and maintaining the global enterprise Datadog platforms, maintaining the templates for the monitoring systems, integration to BigPanda, the quality of the alerting into the BigPanda eventing platform, CMDB integration, monitoring best practices for AWS cloud.

Required Qualifications - Knowledge/Skills:

• Manage monitoring of overall application availability, latency and system health
• Determine alert standards for production environments and implement them
• Develop strategies for logging and indexing to improve visibility to development teams
• Develop and manage configuration scripts for Amazon hosted infrastructure
• Work with the development team and management to ensure high availability
• Familiarity with configuration management software such as Ansible
• Build reporting dashboards to assist visibility of cost and stability
• Provide support to teams for alarms and outages on an as-needed basis
• Experience with Windows Server, IIS, Docker/Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of systems, networks and troubleshooting techniques
• Experience in automated build pipeline, and continuous integration. Source control, branching, & merging: git/svn/etc (Repository Management)
• Communication Skills - The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, speaks and writes clearly and understandably at the right level
• Integrity and Trust - Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, truthful individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain
• Teamwork - Works well in a collaborative setting, volunteering for and completing assignments, acting as a positive team member by contributing to discussions, developing and maintaining relations
• Technical Expertise - A commitment to increasing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs