About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
We are seeking an experienced Datadog Architect to design, implement and optimise enterprise-scale observability and monitoring solutions. This role will play a key part in defining monitoring strategy, improving system visibility, and driving operational excellence across AWS-based cloud environments.
The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, DevOps, SRE, and platform teams to ensure monitoring frameworks are scalable, secure and aligned with modern cloud-native best practices.
Required skills & qualifications:
- Strong commercial Datadog architecture and implementation experience
- Proven experience working within AWS cloud environments
- Ability to work in a hybrid role based in London
- Strong stakeholder engagement and technical leadership experience
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise observability strategies
- Deep expertise in Datadog (APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, etc.)
- Strong experience working with AWS services (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, networking, etc.)
- Experience integrating Datadog with modern cloud-native and microservices architectures
- Strong scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling and DevOps methodologies
- Experience implementing monitoring within containerised environments (Docker/Kubernetes desirable)
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Design and architect scalable Datadog monitoring and observability solutions
- Lead implementation and optimisation of Datadog across infrastructure, applications, and cloud services
- Develop monitoring standards, governance, and best practice frameworks
- Build dashboards, alerts, and performance monitoring solutions across AWS environments
- Work closely with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to improve system reliability and performance
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on monitoring strategy and tooling
- Support incident management and root cause analysis through advanced observability solutions
- Drive automation and integration of Datadog within CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms
- Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimisation across monitoring platforms
Desirable skills & experience:
- Experience working within highly regulated or enterprise-scale environments
- Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering frameworks
- Experience delivering monitoring strategy or platform transformation programmes
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
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What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security.
We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers.
Why choose Amach:
1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner.
2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines.
3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced.
4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned.
5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner.
6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention.
7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs.
We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction.
If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
