Senior Observability Lead: Datadog Platform Expert

HCLTech

Illinois

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited seeks a Senior Technical Lead with 7+ years of Datadog administration and observability experience. The role covers monitoring across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, incident management, and governance for enterprise-scale deployments.

You will design, optimize, and automate Datadog configurations, collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Security teams, and help manage platform costs while ensuring high availability and performance.

Qualifications

7+ years of IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability, SRE and Datadog platform administration.
Experience administering Datadog across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
Experience with cloud providers AWS/Azure/GCP and container platforms.

Responsibilities

Administer and support the Datadog platform including Agents, Integrations, Dashboards, Monitors, Alerts, and SLOs.
Design and implement monitoring solutions for applications, databases, cloud services, and Kubernetes environments.
Configure and optimize APM, Log Management, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, and Cloud Security & SIEM.
Create operational dashboards and executive reports; optimize alert policies and incident response.
Manage log pipelines, retention, indexing, and archives; integrate Datadog with cloud platforms.