Senior Observability Engineer - Datadog/Splunk

Senior Observability Engineer - Application & Infrastructure Monitoring

Job Summary :

We are looking for a Senior Observability Engineer with hands-on experience in Datadog, Splunk, and enterprise monitoring environments.

The candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining monitoring capabilities that provide visibility into application health, infrastructure performance, and production systems.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, configure, and maintain monitoring solutions using Datadog and Splunk.

- Establish monitoring coverage across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments.

- Implement observability practices using metrics, logs, and distributed traces.

- Configure dashboards and monitoring views to provide visibility into application and infrastructure health.

- Build and maintain Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, and infrastructure monitoring configurations.

- Develop Splunk SPL queries for analysing application, infrastructure, and system logs.

- Investigate production incidents involving application performance and infrastructure reliability.

- Automate monitoring and operational activities using Python and Bash.

- Use Terraform to support infrastructure and monitoring configuration automation.

Tech Stack : Datadog, Splunk, APM, AWS/Azure, Linux, Kubernetes, Python/Bash, Terraform

Required Skills :

- 5+ years of relevant experience in Observability Engineering, Application Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, SRE, or related technical roles.

- Strong hands-on experience with Datadog and Splunk.

- Strong understanding of metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and observability principles.

- Experience in production troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.