Senior Observability Engineer (Datadog) - Remote Contract

ZipStaff Inc.; Chapel Hill (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipStaff is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to own Datadog across infra, apps, network, cloud, logs, and digital experience—with automation and AIOps.

You will configure dashboards, monitors, and telemetry pipelines, implement observability-as-code, and help reduce alert noise while accelerating troubleshooting across global environments. This is a remote (U.S.) contract role through ZipStaff.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years observability, monitoring, SRE, infrastructure, or APM.
• Strong hands-on Datadog in a large enterprise.
• Metrics, logs, traces, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and optimize Datadog (infra, APM, network, cloud, logs, DEM).
• Create dashboards, monitors, alerts, integrations, SLIs, SLOs, and service-health views.
• Configure and troubleshoot Datadog agents, integrations, APIs, collectors, and telemetry pipelines.

Skills

Datadog

SRE

Observability

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Rundeck

Git

REST APIs

AWS / Azure

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

ServiceNow

Job description

ZipStaff is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to own Datadog across infra, apps, network, cloud, logs, and digital experience—with automation and AIOps.

You will configure dashboards, monitors, and telemetry pipelines, implement observability-as-code, and help reduce alert noise while accelerating troubleshooting across global environments. This is a remote (U.S.) contract role through ZipStaff.