Datadog Azure Observability Expert

Ampcus Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bravens Inc., a subsidiary of Ampcus Inc., is seeking a Datadog SME - Azure Observability Engineer in Chicago, IL. You will onboard Azure-hosted apps to Datadog, implement agents, dashboards, monitors, and SLOs, and integrate alerts with ServiceNow and Teams.

The role requires hands-on Datadog delivery on Azure workloads, experience with AKS, App Service, Terraform, Helm, OpenTelemetry, and scripting in PowerShell/Python. You will mentor teams and document runbooks for audit-ready observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS, IS, or related field.
• 4–7 years in observability, monitoring, SRE, DevOps, or app support with Datadog on Azure workloads.

Responsibilities

• Onboard Azure-hosted apps to Datadog with agents and integrations.
• Build dashboards, timeboards, monitors, SLOs, and alert routing to ServiceNow and Teams.
• Instrument APM/tracing and log pipelines; manage tags and cost-aware observability.
• Collaborate with application teams; document runbooks and handover artefacts.

Skills

Datadog delivery

Azure expertise

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Onboarding sessions

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

Datadog

Azure

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Datadog API

Job description

Bravens Inc., a subsidiary of Ampcus Inc., is seeking a Datadog SME - Azure Observability Engineer in Chicago, IL. You will onboard Azure-hosted apps to Datadog, implement agents, dashboards, monitors, and SLOs, and integrate alerts with ServiceNow and Teams.

The role requires hands-on Datadog delivery on Azure workloads, experience with AKS, App Service, Terraform, Helm, OpenTelemetry, and scripting in PowerShell/Python. You will mentor teams and document runbooks for audit-ready observability.