Observability Engineer (Datadog)

ZipStaff is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer for the global technology estate of a major commercial real estate and facilities organization. You will own Datadog across infra, apps, network, cloud, logs, and digital experience-plus automation (Rundeck, Ansible, Python) and AIOps. Datadog depth is the gate. One client interview; identity verification is required at submission.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.
• Automate onboarding, config, remediation, and ops with Rundeck, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, APIs, and Git.
• Practice observability-as-code.
• Tune AIOps: correlation, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, noise reduction, incident enrichment.
• Use AI/GenAI to speed troubleshooting and operational workflows.
• Integrate Datadog with ServiceNow, Rundeck, cloud, and CI/CD.
• Investigate issues from metrics, logs, traces, events, and network telemetry across APAC, AMER, and EMEA.

• 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.
• Rundeck and Ansible.
• Scripting: Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• REST APIs, webhooks, Git/GitHub, CI/CD.
• Azure and/or AWS.
• Familiarity with IaC / config management.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.