Senior Datadog Consultant — Observability & APM Expert

NRI Australia & New Zealand; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI Australia & New Zealand in Sydney is seeking a Senior Datadog Consultant to join our Managed Services team. You will establish yourself as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, leading complex observability projects for our Australian customers.

You will design and implement Datadog APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, and RUM; build dashboards, monitors, and SLOs; and integrate Datadog with cloud platforms and ITSM tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of application monitoring/observability experience, with 3+ years hands-on with Datadog across APM, Infrastructure, Log Management, and RUM
• Lead end-to-end Datadog implementations and onboarding for enterprise customers, acting as the primary technical authority from discovery through go-live and beyond
• Run detailed discovery and requirements‑gathering sessions with technical and business stakeholders, translating application landscapes into monitoring, tracing, and alerting designs
• Deep, demonstrable experience instrumenting distributed applications for APM and distributed tracing, including custom instrumentation
• Experience building Datadog dashboards, SLOs, Monitors, and Notebooks for meaningful visibility
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and Datadog integrations with cloud-native services
• Experience with containerised and orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and monitoring via Datadog
• Datadog certifications preferred or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Experience integrating Datadog alerting with ITSM platforms (ServiceNow)
• Experience in scripting/automation (Python, Bash), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines for monitoring‑as‑code

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Datadog implementations for enterprise customers
• Design monitoring architectures, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate landscapes into monitoring designs
• Instrument distributed applications for APM and tracing
• Integrate Datadog with cloud and on-prem environments
• Maintain and optimize the observability stack
• Provide expert guidance as a trusted advisor

Skills

Datadog expertise

APM

Distributed tracing

RUM

Dashboard design

SLOs/Monitors

Alerting/incident response

OpenTelemetry

Service mapping

Stakeholder discovery

Tools

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

ServiceNow

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

NRI Australia & New Zealand in Sydney is seeking a Senior Datadog Consultant to join our Managed Services team. You will establish yourself as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, leading complex observability projects for our Australian customers.

You will design and implement Datadog APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, and RUM; build dashboards, monitors, and SLOs; and integrate Datadog with cloud platforms and ITSM tools.