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Job Description
About the opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Observability Analyst to lead the evolution of the organization's observability strategy, with Datadog as the primary corporate monitoring and observability platform.
This position will be responsible for defining standards, promoting best practices, and ensuring the implementation of a proactive approach based on metrics, logs, traces, and business indicators. The professional will work on building a reliability-oriented culture, supporting Engineering, Architecture, Development, SRE, and Operations teams in the early identification of risks and the continuous reduction of incidents.
We are looking for someone with strong technical knowledge in Datadog and the ability to transform operational data into concrete actions to improve user experience, application stability, and operational efficiency.
Key responsibilities
- Act as the technical and functional reference for the Datadog platform within the organization.
- Design, implement, and evolve observability solutions using APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs Management, Dashboards, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Synthetic Monitoring, and Continuous Testing modules.
- Define corporate observability standards for applications, APIs, microservices, and cloud workloads.
- Structure and maintain executive, operational, and analytical dashboards to track platform health.
- Develop proactive monitoring strategies based on SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and business indicators.
- Create, review, and optimize intelligent monitors and alerts using advanced Datadog features to reduce operational noise and false positives.
- Support development teams in instrumenting applications using OpenTelemetry and native Datadog integrations.
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) of critical incidents and propose structural actions to prevent recurrences.
- Identify opportunities for automation, failure prediction, and self-healing initiatives.
- Develop training, playbooks, standards, and documentation related to the Datadog platform.
- Perform periodic analyses of capacity, performance, availability, and end-user experience.
- Act as a transformation agent in disseminating a culture of observability and operational excellence.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
- Advanced experience with Datadog, working in implementation, administration, and platform evolution.
- Practical experience with:
- Datadog APM
- Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring
- Datadog Logs Management
- Datadog Dashboards
- Datadog Monitors
- Monitoring Service Catalog
- Advanced knowledge of observability pillars: Logs, Metrics, Distributed Tracing
- Experience in observability for APIs and microservices architectures.
- Experience with AWS environments.
- Experience in troubleshooting and investigating complex incidents.
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and application instrumentation.
- Knowledge of automation using Python, Shell Script, or PowerShell.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native ecosystems.
- Solid knowledge of system availability, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Ability to translate technical indicators into business impacts.
- Excellent communication and ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
Desirable
- Datadog Certified Associate certification or higher.
- Experience with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices.
- Experience in implementing observability strategies for large-scale distributed environments.
- Knowledge of CI/CD and DevSecOps.
- Experience with incident response automation and self-healing processes.
- Experience in operational governance, incident management, Problem Management, and ITIL processes.
- Previous experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic Stack, or Zabbix.
Expected profile
We are looking for someone who has: A passion for observability and system reliability. An investigative profile oriented toward solving complex problems. A strong sense of ownership and operational responsibility. Ability to influence technical teams in adopting best practices. A data-driven and continuous improvement mindset. A systemic view to correlate technical events with business impacts. A collaborative, consultative profile with the ability to train other teams. Position highlights: Be a protagonist in defining the corporate observability strategy. Act directly on the evolution of the organization's operational maturity. Lead initiatives for automation, intelligent observability, and incident reduction. Influence engineering and reliability standards used by multiple teams. Work in a high-visibility environment with business impact. Participate in building an increasingly proactive, data-driven operation based on operational excellence.
Job summary in one sentence: We are looking for a Datadog expert capable of transforming observability into an operational advantage, reducing incidents, increasing platform reliability, and disseminating a culture of proactive, data-driven monitoring.
Additional Information
This is an affirmative position for women, as part of our commitment to advancing gender equity in the workplace.
Serasa Experian invests in female leadership and has a partnership with TODAS Group. Additionally, we adhere to the 'Elas Lideram 2030' movement, and we have joined UN Women to reduce gender inequality by 2030!!
We also have the Women in Experian group, which seeks to improve gender equity for women by creating development opportunities, different perspectives, skills, among others.
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