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Senior Consultant

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Posted on: 08-04-2025
Job description
Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience with Datadog or alternative products like Dynatrace set up in critical production environments
Has experience working with AWS hosted applications and services
Experience using observability dashboards particularly centered around APM
Experience with Ansible automation on production and non-production environments
Working knowledge of coding .NET applications and log frameworks
Core Capabilities:
Expert level knowledge on Datadog integration with agents as well as APM and RUM
Ability to convert existing ElasticSearch Grok patterns and filters to Datadog and set up a new forwarder
Proficient in AWS, particularly CloudWatch, CloudTrail and EC2
Ability to deploy Datadog agents across on-prem and cloud-hosted instances
Understand how to build observability into monolithing applications to expose telemetry via the OpenTelemetry SDK or Zipkin traces
Understand the customer service requirement to define and create service level objectives (SLOs) as well as corresponding dashboards
Strong knowledge of Ansible and Powershell to automate deployment of Datadog agents
Experienced in running R&D labs as well as incubating new solutions
Strong grasp of 4 Golden Signals, MELT and RED approaches to observability
Creating actionable dashboards and associated alerts based on thresholds using Datadog
Ability to write IaC using Terraform or Packer

Qualification:

Datadog Fundamentals certification or certification from any other product vendor
AWS associate level certifications are a bonus, but not mandatory
Role & Responsibilities:
Design the entire observability solution using Datadog for a .NET application and its infrastructure
Conduct R&D activities in the form of labs on Datadog RUM, APM setup and Log consolidation
Build integrations for observability into on-prem and cloud hosted applications using Datadog and ensure the deployment as well as continuous running of agents
Instrument and expose traces from monolithic .NET applications
Connecting telemetry data from cloud and on-prem applications into a single source of truth
Direct liaison with the application architecture / design team to accept guidance around the application and ongoing migration to AWS
Contribute towards improving the new logging standards set out by the design team based on feedback after integration with Datadog and alignment to observability standards
Document the observability solution, guidance for new agent deployment, dashboard amendments and alert modifications
Train a new team and hand over in-life maintenance of the Datadog solution built
Test the entire solution for proper data flow and visibility of telemetry using the dashboards as well as common observability schema
Perform an analysis of the uplifted ecosystem and suggest any improvements to the application / deployment architecture for self-healing capability via AIOps
Build a fault-tolerant solution to automatically deploy new agents for any new instances provisioned

 Key job details

Primary Location
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Job Type
Experienced
Primary Skills
Datadog
Years of Experience
7
Travel
No
Job Posting
08/04/2025

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