Job Description: Senior Observability Engineer – Datadog & Splunk
Experience: 5+ Years
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Observability Engineer with hands-on expertise in Datadog, Splunk, and monitoring solutions to ensure application performance, infrastructure reliability, and production stability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Configure and manage Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, APM, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Develop Splunk SPL queries, dashboards, reports, and alerts for log analysis.
- Implement end-to-end observability using metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, and Kubernetes environments.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and support incident management.
- Automate monitoring tasks using Python/Bash and Terraform.
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, application, and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability.
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Datadog and Splunk.
- Knowledge of APM, log management, dashboards, alerting, and observability concepts.
- Experience with Linux, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and application monitoring.
- Knowledge of scripting, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform is preferred.
