Technical Lead Observability

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

As an Observability Expert, you will design and implement end-to-end monitoring, tracing and alerting solutions for critical applications at a leading company in the energy sector. Join a fully remote role at the intersection of platform reliability and business insight.

OBSERVABILITY AT SCALE

DATADOG & AWS

FULLY REMOTE

LEARNING & GROWTH

Don't tick every box? If you meet around 70% of the requirements above, we'd still encourage you to apply.

About The Role

We are looking for an Observability Expert to strengthen the monitoring and reliability capabilities of a leading energy sector company. In this role, you will instrument applications for functional and technical metrics, build distributed tracing and logging pipelines, and work closely with business stakeholders to define the SLIs and SLOs that matter most. You will bring both deep technical expertise in Datadog and AWS and the business acumen to translate reliability into meaningful KPIs and dashboards.

Key Responsibilities

• Instrument applications for both functional and technical metrics using Datadog APM, custom metrics and Distributed Tracing.
• Use logs as a source of metrics, leveraging CloudWatch and/or Datadog metric generation.
• Define SLIs and SLOs, guiding the definition of functional KPIs in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Implement and define structured logging across applications and services.
• Design high-level business dashboards that translate technical telemetry into actionable insight.
• Instrument applications across multiple languages, primarily Python, with TypeScript and Java where required.

Required Skills & Experience

• 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.
• Solid AWS knowledge and practical experience.
• Ability to instrument applications using Python (mandatory), with TypeScript and Java as a plus.
• Strong expertise with the Datadog SDK.
• Experience implementing and defining structured logging.
• Ability to design high-level business dashboards.

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with Grafana (visualization layer).
• Experience with service-to-service traffic control and monitoring.
• Experience with Power BI (data visualization).
• Experience gathering business requirements related to SLO definition.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Developer Associate.
• Datadog certifications, a plus.

WORKING MODEL

Fully remote position.