Senior Datadog Cloud Engineer

Location: SEC Headquarters – Washington, DC 20549 Position Type: Onsite (Government Site – No Telework) Contract Duration: 07/20/2026 – 01/19/2027 (6 Months, Extension Possible) Target Start Date: 07/20/2026 Program: SEC ISS 2 Clearance Requirement: Public Trust Role Summary We are seeking a Senior Datadog Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership for enterprise observability, application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, and cloud monitoring supporting the SEC Infrastructure Support Services (ISS) contract. This hands‑on engineering role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing an enterprise observability platform across hybrid cloud and containerized environments while improving system reliability, availability, and operational performance. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Datadog (or equivalent observability platforms), Azure and AWS cloud monitoring, Kubernetes/OpenShift, performance engineering, and enterprise‑scale operational analytics. Key Responsibilities Observability Platform Engineering Engineer, administer, and optimize enterprise observability platforms including: Dynatrace New Relic Splunk Observability Design and maintain: APM Distributed tracing RUM (Real User Monitoring) Synthetic monitoring Network Performance Monitoring Build and maintain: SLOs SLIs Monitoring standards Instrument applications and infrastructure using: OpenTelemetry Language-specific tracers Develop integrations between observability platforms and: ServiceNow On‑call notification systems Define and enforce enterprise telemetry tagging standards Design monitoring solutions for: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Monitor: PaaS services Networking Identity services Managed databases

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Aurora MySQL SQL Server Oracle DynamoDB ElastiCache/Redis Design observability solutions for: OpenShift Service Mesh Cluster health Performance Engineering Lead performance investigations involving: Reliability Capacity Analyze: Distributed traces Code profiling Exception tracking RUM correlations Partner with engineering teams to implement performance improvements Develop trace‑based deployment tracking and change correlation processes Provide technical leadership during production incidents and root cause analysis Capacity & Reliability Engineering Analyze operational telemetry and performance trends Develop capacity planning dashboards and executive reports Define: Capacity thresholds Alert baselines Scaling recommendations Improve: Monitoring coverage Operational maturity SLA/KPI compliance Required Technical Skills Minimum 8 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience Minimum 5 years focused on: Observability Performance Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Hands‑on experience with enterprise observability platforms including: Dynatrace New Relic Splunk Observability Expertise with: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Distributed tracing OpenTelemetry Experience instrumenting applications using: Java .NET Python Node.js Go Experience with: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hybrid cloud environments Experience monitoring: OpenShift Container platforms Experience with: SQL performance tuning Database monitoring Query analytics Execution plans Experience integrating observability with: ServiceNow DevOps workflows Experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code using: Terraform ARM Templates Bicep Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and performance optimization skills Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have Skills Experience leading enterprise observability strategy Experience with enterprise operational dashboards and executive reporting Experience supporting 24x7x365 production environments Advanced knowledge of cloud‑native monitoring and telemetry governance Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's degree in: Computer Science Information Technology Related technical field Minimum 8 years of relevant infrastructure/platform engineering experience Minimum 5 years specializing in observability, SRE, or performance engineering Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance About the Team / Company This role supports the SEC Infrastructure Support Services (ISS) contract, providing senior technical leadership for enterprise observability across hybrid cloud, containerized, and on‑premises environments. The engineer will collaborate with cloud, platform, and application teams to improve system reliability, operational visibility, and performance while supporting mission‑critical SEC infrastructure. #J-18808-Ljbffr Aptonet