Senior Observability Engineer – Datadog & Splunk

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4 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting • Cybersecurity
The Role
Build and manage observability solutions using Datadog and Splunk across applications, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and Kubernetes. Develop dashboards, alerts, reports, SPL queries, and distributed tracing capabilities. Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and improve system reliability in collaboration with DevOps, SRE, application, and infrastructure teams. Automate monitoring tasks using Python, Bash, and Terraform.
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Job Description: Senior Observability Engineer – Datadog & Splunk
Experience: 5+ Years

Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Observability Engineer with hands-on expertise in Datadog, Splunk, and monitoring solutions to ensure application performance, infrastructure reliability, and production stability.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Configure and manage Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, APM, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Develop Splunk SPL queries, dashboards, reports, and alerts for log analysis.
  • Implement end-to-end observability using metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
  • Monitor cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and support incident management.
  • Automate monitoring tasks using Python/Bash and Terraform.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, application, and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability.
Required Skills:
  • Strong hands-on experience with Datadog and Splunk.
  • Knowledge of APM, log management, dashboards, alerting, and observability concepts.
  • Experience with Linux, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and application monitoring.
  • Knowledge of scripting, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform is preferred.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of professional experience
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog and Splunk
  • Knowledge of APM, log management, dashboards, alerting, and observability concepts
  • Experience with Linux and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
  • Knowledge of scripting, incident management, and production troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Dallas, TX
167 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

For over 24 years Prudent Technologies & Consulting has been helping customers secure the technical and functional resources needed to deliver mission-critical IT & Business initiatives. What started as an IT Consulting company providing premium IT staffing services on a contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire basis in the US, has grown to include full service IT Consulting specialty practices in three key technology verticals: Data Sciences, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise CRM. Prudent’s specialty practices are built on strong partnerships with best of breed technology firms, including Salesforce, Splunk, Cylance, McAfee, Symantec, and Databricks. At Prudent we pride ourselves on our ability to tailor the best solution to meet our customer’s needs. From augmenting an IT team with a qualified consultant, to delivering an end to end software solution, our goal is always to help our customers execute critical business and IT initiatives. We are always on the lookout for innovators! We strive to hire the best people to work on our exciting projects and teams. We offer our staff a great compensation package, work-life balance, benefits, 401K, holidays, PTO, career paths, teamwork, awards & recognition and much more. WINNER: Dallas Business Journal’s - 2015 Best Place to Work! Come join the Prudent family and let’s have fun creating innovative solutions for our clients!

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