Hybrid Observability Engineer: DataDog & AppDynamics

Akaasa Technologies; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Akaasa Technologies, based in Scottsdale, AZ, is seeking a DataDog/AppDynamics observability specialist. The role is onsite with 2 days on-site required and cross-team collaboration to strengthen monitoring and reliability.

You will lead hands-on administration of DataDog, AppDynamics, and Quantum Metrics, design automations using GitOps and Python, and contribute to SRE tasks involving Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

Qualifications

• 3+ years with observability stacks including DataDog, AppDynamics, and Quantum Metrics.
• Deployment, configuration, customization, and troubleshooting of DataDog and AppDynamics agents.
• Experience setting up native mobile, browser real-user, and synthetic monitoring.
• 5+ years in full-stack observability including APMs, metrics, logs and traces with automation focus.
• Experience designing automation tasks using GitOps and Python.
• 3+ years GCP and solid Kubernetes understanding.
• Strong monitoring SME collaborating with teams to design effective monitoring and alerting.

Responsibilities

• 70% hands-on administration and automation for DataDog, AppDynamics and Quantum Metrics.
• 30% Site Reliability Engineering tasks related to Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, Grafana, etc.

Skills

Observability architecture

Automation

Team collaboration

Tools

DataDog

AppDynamics

Quantum Metrics

GitOps

Python

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

Akaasa Technologies, based in Scottsdale, AZ, is seeking a DataDog/AppDynamics observability specialist. The role is onsite with 2 days on-site required and cross-team collaboration to strengthen monitoring and reliability.

You will lead hands-on administration of DataDog, AppDynamics, and Quantum Metrics, design automations using GitOps and Python, and contribute to SRE tasks involving Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.