Lead Systems Engineer – AWS Cloud Observability & Datadog
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years in systems, infrastructure, or cloud engineering; 5+ years hands-on AWS; 3+ years hands-on Datadog or equivalent observability platform.
- Advanced Datadog skills: infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, dashboards, alerting, integrations, and tracing.
- Strong AWS knowledge, including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, networking, compute, databases, containers, and serverless.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Docker/Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, Terraform or CloudFormation, Python/Bash, APIs, and CI/CD.
- Demonstrated production troubleshooting, incident management, SRE practices, and technical leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional; relevant Datadog certification.
- Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Splunk, OpenTelemetry Collector, or Fluent Bit experience.
- Multi-account enterprise AWS architecture; IAM, security, compliance, and data governance.
- AIOps, event correlation, automated remediation, or regulated-industry experience.
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.