[Remote] Senior Datadog Architect & Implementation Engineer

September 22, 2026

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. iShare Inc. is an IT consulting firm providing technology advisory, development, and staffing services. The company is seeking a Senior Datadog Architect & Implementation Engineer to implement and support a multi-account AWS observability platform, including integrations, centralized logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, monitors, alerts, and notification workflows.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy an organization-wide Datadog AWS integration across Dev, UAT, and Prod environments
Implement the integration using AWS CloudFormation StackSets, AWS Organizations, and secure cross-account IAM roles
Build and maintain the CloudWatch Logs-to-Datadog pipeline using the Datadog Forwarder Lambda and CloudWatch subscription filters
Configure Datadog AWS metrics polling across multiple AWS accounts
Enable CloudWatch Transaction Search and configure the Datadog AWS X-Ray integration
Ensure AgentCore trace and span data is visible and searchable within Datadog
Implement distributed tracing and telemetry using AWS X-Ray and OpenTelemetry
Create tag-driven dashboards organized by environment, AWS account, application, and AI solution
Build dashboards for AI token consumption, platform usage, performance, reliability, and cost monitoring
Define, configure, and tune Datadog monitors and alert thresholds
Establish notification routing, escalation paths, and production-support procedures
Troubleshoot issues involving missing logs, metrics, traces, permissions, tags, and cross-account integrations
Work with security, cloud infrastructure, platform, and application teams to complete IAM and compliance reviews
Provide production support and maintain the implemented Datadog platform
Working Datadog integrations across all required AWS accounts and environments
Operational CloudWatch log-forwarding and metrics-polling pipelines
Visible and searchable AgentCore traces and spans
Live, tag-driven operational and cost dashboards
Correctly firing and tuned monitors and alerts
Production-ready notification routing and support documentation

Skills

Strong hands-on experience implementing Datadog in multi-account AWS environments
Proven experience configuring Datadog AWS metrics polling
Hands-on experience deploying and supporting the Datadog Forwarder Lambda
Experience configuring CloudWatch Logs subscription filters and centralized log forwarding
Strong knowledge of AWS Organizations and organization-wide cloud deployments
Hands-on experience with CloudFormation and CloudFormation StackSets
Strong understanding of cross-account IAM roles, trust policies, permissions, and security controls
Experience with AWS X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and spans
Hands-on experience supporting AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch Logs, and CloudWatch Metrics
Experience building production Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, and notification workflows
Ability to implement solutions against an existing enterprise architecture
Experience working through security, compliance, and IAM approval processes
Strong troubleshooting, cross-team delivery, and production-support skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience monitoring AI or generative AI solutions built with Amazon Bedrock or Bedrock AgentCore
Experience creating token-usage and cost-monitoring dashboards for AI workloads
Knowledge of Datadog tagging strategies and AWS tag taxonomies
Datadog or AWS professional certifications
Experience delivering observability solutions in regulated enterprise environments

Benefits

Part Time • Fully Remote - US
This is a remote position.

Company Overview

iShare is a NJ-based boutique IT consulting firm that offers strategic advisory, development, and staffing services designed for specific verticals: Chemicals/Manufacturing (general & specialty chemical product manufacturers), Pharma & Healthcare (hospitals, clinics, labs), Software (data visualization, HR, risk management), and Professional Services (HR firms, architects, doctors) industries. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Hillsborough, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is

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