Lead Systems Engineer Location: 100% remote Duration: 9 months Description: The Client is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to support the Systems Monitoring initiatives for several SOW’s 2025 and beyond. Responsible for software tool administration for systems and applications monitoring tools. Expertise with at least one of the Monitoring tools like DataDog. DataDog Administration experience on Linux platform to instrument Java based applications running on Tomcat Application Server. Configuration experience in Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Monitoring and Centralized Logging. Tasks: Manages, configures and maintains the Data Dog tool on Linux platform. Responsible for Network Monitoring, Infrastructure/Server Monitoring (Linux, Windows, AIX) using Data Dog, Application, SNMP and Log Monitoring. Configure centralized logging of all logs from different sources like WebSphere / Tomcat and Client WebServers on AIX servers to Data Dog on Linux. Knowledge of Load Balancers like F5 to route logs to Log server. Handling different types of Log formats. Creates required dashboards with data visualization in Data Dog. Manages, configures and maintains the DataDog APM tool on Linux platform. Responsible for Java Applications’ instrumentation with Data Dog, set up health rules and fine tune monitoring in Data Dog. Setup End User Monitoring / Browser Real User Monitoring of Data Dog for applications, using Java script injection. Specific Required Skills: Monitoring services team Team is using Data Dog Tool Team is migrating APM to Data Dog Migrating Infra management to Data Dog Migrating Go Cloud to a commercial cloud within Data Dog Migrating customer service apps from On-prem to cloud Must have Skills: Data dog setup in the admin level on the AWS platform AWS platform EC2, Lambda, EKS Good to have Service now 3-5 years of experience in Data Dog Licenses/Certifications: ITIL Foundations v3 SAFe Certification