Datadog Observability Engineer — AI-Driven Alerts & IaC

arctiq; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arctiq is seeking an Observability Implementation Consultant to design, implement, and optimize observability solutions for enterprise customers. The role focuses on migrating legacy monitoring platforms to Datadog, enabling full-stack observability, and AI-driven alerting and automation.

The consultant will work with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, production-ready monitoring. Contract: 6 Months.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Datadog experience (APM, logs, metrics, dashboards).
• Experience migrating from other monitoring platforms (e.g., LogicMonitor).
• Proficiency in observability concepts (traces, metrics, logs, alerting).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• GIT and CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions).
• Experience with serverless and database observability.
• Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Datadog-based observability solutions across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.
• Lead migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g., LogicMonitor) to Datadog.
• Deploy and configure Datadog agents across distributed environments (Linux, Windows, cloud).
• Build dashboards, monitors, alerts, and service maps aligned to KPIs.
• Implement log ingestion pipelines, APM tracing, and metrics correlation.
• Configure Datadog Watchdog for anomaly detection and AI-driven alerting.
• Enable serverless and database monitoring (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, SQL/NoSQL).
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for repeatable observability deployment.
• Implement security best practices including PII masking and access controls.
• Collaborate with customer teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies.
• Provide documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational handoff.

Skills

Observability concepts

Distributed systems troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

CI/CD experience

Cloud platforms

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Bash

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Arctiq is seeking an Observability Implementation Consultant to design, implement, and optimize observability solutions for enterprise customers. The role focuses on migrating legacy monitoring platforms to Datadog, enabling full-stack observability, and AI-driven alerting and automation.

The consultant will work with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, production-ready monitoring. Contract: 6 Months.