What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Dog Cloud Engineer position at Protos IT?
Job Title: Software Specialist V (Data Dog Cloud Engineer Senior)
Location: Washington DC
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Experience:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure or platform engineering roles, including 5 years focused on observability, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- Demonstrated experience engineering and operating an enterprise observability platform (Datadog strongly preferred; equivalent experience with Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk Observability, or Grafana/Prometheus stacks considered).
- Proven experience building APM and distributed tracing coverage for production multi-tier applications -- including language-specific tracer deployment, custom instrumentation of business transactions, service/dependency mapping, continuous profiling, and RUM-to-backend trace correlation -- across cloud and containerized workloads.
- Proven experience leading complex production performance and reliability problem-solving from telemetry to remediation.
Salary : $70 - $80