Datadog Administrator

Capgemini • Van Buren Township, IN

12d

About The Position

The Datadog Administrator administers and manages the Datadog platform, including agent deployment, integrations, configurations, and governance. The role implements and optimizes application performance monitoring solutions using Datadog APM and Broadcom DX APM, and configures tracing, service maps, synthetic monitoring, Real User Monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and Service Level Objectives.

The position integrates monitoring tools and supports correlation of metrics, logs, and traces for unified observability. It involves performing root cause analysis, troubleshooting performance issues, collaborating with application, cloud, infrastructure, and platform teams, improving monitoring coverage, reducing alert noise, and managing platform upgrades, performance tuning, and monitoring best practices.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in Datadog platform administration.
• Strong expertise in Datadog APM, infrastructure monitoring, log management, RUM, synthetic monitoring, and observability.
• Good knowledge of Broadcom DX APM.
• Experience with distributed tracing and microservices monitoring.
• Strong understanding of observability concepts, including metrics, logs, and traces.
• Experience in dashboard creation, alert tuning, and monitoring governance.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage the Datadog platform, including agent deployment, integrations, configurations, and governance.
• Implement and optimize APM solutions using Datadog APM and Broadcom DX APM.
• Configure application tracing, service maps, synthetic monitoring, Real User Monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Integrate monitoring tools and enable correlation of metrics, logs, and traces.
• Perform root cause analysis and troubleshoot performance issues using observability data.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, infrastructure, and platform teams on onboarding and monitoring requirements.
• Improve monitoring coverage, optimize alerting strategies, and reduce alert noise.
• Manage platform upgrades, performance tuning, and monitoring best practices.

Benefits

• Personalized career guidance and career paths and internal opportunities within Capgemini group.
• Wellness benefits, including health checks, telemedicine, insurance with top-ups, elder care, partner coverage, and new-parent support via flexible work.
• Access to a digital learning platform with more than 250,000 courses and numerous certifications.
• A workplace committed to inclusion and belonging.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed