Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Datadog Observability

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Datadog Observability

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Datadog Observability

Experience Required: 8+ years overall in SRE and Infrastructure Operations with minimum 3+ years hands-on experience in Datadog

Location: Hyderabad preferable but open for Pune and remote

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead end-to-end SRE implementation initiatives with a strong focus on Datadog Observability. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in building reliable, scalable, and observable systems, with hands-on experience in integrating enterprise applications and middleware

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end SRE implementation, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Design, configure, and manage Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, and APM for proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Utilize the Datadog Roles API to create and manage user roles, global permissions, and access controls for various teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to identify observability gaps and design solutions using Datadog.
• Implement automation for alerting, incident response, and ticket creation to improve operational efficiency.
• Work closely with business and IT teams to support critical Financial Month-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End closures.
• Leverage Datadog AI
• Provide technical leadership in observability, reliability, and performance engineering practices

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Observability
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog (dashboards, APM, alerting, log management, Roles API, and monitoring setup).
• Proven experience implementing SRE best practices —incident management, postmortems, automation, and reliability metrics
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; experience collaborating with business and IT teams.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work in high-pressure production support environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in Datadog or related observability platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and automation frameworks.
• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or OCI).
• Exposure to ITIL-based production support processes.