Observability Engineer — Remote (Datadog & AWS)

Cognizant; Navalcarnero; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Observability Expert to design end-to-end monitoring, tracing and alerting for critical applications in the energy sector. This fully remote role focuses on instrumenting applications with Datadog and AWS, defining SLIs/SLOs, and delivering dashboards that translate telemetry into business insights.

Responsibilities include building distributed tracing, structured logging, and metric pipelines while collaborating with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Datadog APM, Datadog custom metrics and Distributed Tracing.
• Experience instrumenting applications for both functional and technical metrics using Datadog.
• Experience using logs as a source of metrics (CloudWatch and/or Datadog metric generation).
• Strong understanding of SLI and SLO definitions, with the ability to guide the definition of functional KPIs in collaboration with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Instrument applications for metrics using Datadog APM and distributed tracing.
• Leverage logs as metrics via CloudWatch and Datadog metrics generation.
• Define SLIs/SLOs with business stakeholders to guide KPIs.
• Implement structured logging across services and languages.
• Design high-level business dashboards translating telemetry into insights.
• Instrument apps in Python; TypeScript and Java as needed.

Skills

Datadog APM

Custom metrics

Distributed tracing

CloudWatch

SLI/SLO definitions

AWS

Python

TypeScript

Java

Datadog SDK

Structured logging

Dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Power BI

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Observability Expert to design end-to-end monitoring, tracing and alerting for critical applications in the energy sector. This fully remote role focuses on instrumenting applications with Datadog and AWS, defining SLIs/SLOs, and delivering dashboards that translate telemetry into business insights.

Responsibilities include building distributed tracing, structured logging, and metric pipelines while collaborating with stakeholders.