Datadog Optimization & Monitoring Specialist

We are looking for an experienced Datadog consultant to help improve our current monitoring and observability platform. Our environment runs primarily on AWS and includes services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and Kinesis, along with Windows-based systems. We already collect a large amount of data in Datadog, but our teams still rely mostly on AWS-native tools for monitoring and troubleshooting. Most existing dashboards are default dashboards, and only a few monitors have been configured. Responsibilities Review our current Datadog setup Improve dashboards and monitoring coverage Create useful alerts and notifications Reduce alert noise and improve visibility Help teams make better use of Datadog Identify opportunities to optimize Datadog costs Requirements Strong Datadog experience AWS monitoring and observability knowledge Experience with dashboards, alerts, logs, and metrics Ability to turn monitoring data into actionable insights The ideal candidate can quickly assess the current environment, recommend improvements, and help build a monitoring platform that engineering and operations teams will actively use.