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Insight Global Observability Engineer in Raleigh, North Carolina
Job Description
The Observability Engineer is responsible for helping migrate from SignalFX to Datadog
stakeholders through a value-driven migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g.,
SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud) to modern observability solutions such as Datadog. This
role emphasizes rationalization, optimization, and enablement—ensuring that migrated
dashboards and metrics are cost-efficient.
Key Responsibilities
● Assessment & Rationalization
○ Work with customers to help them decide which dashboards to migrate,
refactor, or retire based on business impact.
● Datadog Optimization
○ Map legacy dashboards to Datadog’s native templates and features.
○ Leverage AWS integrations and out-of-the-box dashboards to reduce custom
build effort.
● Stakeholder Enablement
○ Educate Infra, App, and DevOps teams on Datadog’s capabilities and best
practices.
○ Ability to collaboratively train and document supporting long-term dashboard
ownership.
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Skills and Requirements
● Proven expertise in Datadog, including AWS integrations and dashboard templating.
● Experience with SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud and legacy monitoring
paradigms.
● Experience working across Infra, App, and DevOps teams to create relevant metrics.
● Experience with applying SRE concepts
● Strong understanding of AWS architecture and cloud-native observability.
● Strong understanding of monitoring distributed systems
● Familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes
● Familiarity with Ansible
● Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
● Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
● 3 years of Python development experience
● Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. ● Certifications in Datadog, AWS, or related observability platforms.
● Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring transformations.
Engagement Flow Example
Mapping: Align legacy dashboards with Datadog’s AWS-native templates.
Rationalization: Recommend migration priorities and dashboard retirement.
Implementation: Collaborate with Red Hat teams on efficient migration execution.
Enablement: Train stakeholders on dashboard creation, maintenance, and
optimization.