Datadog Architect - 100% Remote

Datadog Architect – 100% Remote Location - Chicago, IL Duration – 12 months contract Start Date - ASAP Salary – DOE US Citizen, Green Card, GC EAD, and H4 EAD can apply for this role, No third party corp to corp. As an APM architect, you will be required to provide and own technical oversight for all APM applications/tools within the group. You will be involved in designing and enhancing solutions, analyzing deployment requirements, working with the team to implement and deploy solutions and platforms. Must be hands on with configurations. In-depth knowledge and experience working with datacenter, cloud and hybrid infrastructure is required. Must be familiar with Agile and Waterfall model. Hands-on experience with performance monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog). Ability to assess and propose monitoring solutions for diverse application scope. Experience of Assessment (Preparation of assessment plan, questionnaire, capture findings and artifacts, present findings and solution) for monitoring tool implementation. Exposure to monitoring tool migration projects from one tool to another. Exposure to both large and small deployments. Exposure to newer trends with AI and automated monitoring. Comfortable in defining and designing to stated NFRs. Working knowledge on dev ops, continuous deployment and monitoring. Integrated Service Environment including on premise, cloud and hybrid services. Exposure to databases (both RDBMS and NoSQL). Working knowledge of and exposure to Open Source tools and best practices. Familiarity with software architecture and design (front-end, middleware, backend, micro services etc.) Enterprise architecture experience would be an added advantage. Primary skills: Application performance monitoring with Datadog, Splunk Secondary skills / Added advantage : BigFix, Terraforms Staffing the Universe