Observability Engineer - Outside IR35 - Datadog Migration Specialist

About the position We are looking for a Datadog specialist to support a short-term engagement focused on migrating observability tooling from Grafana to Datadog.

This is a hands-on contract role where you will take ownership of migrating dashboards, metrics, and monitoring configurations, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to existing services.

You will work closely with Appvia engineers to implement best practices in observability and ensure the platform is well-instrumented, scalable, and easy to operate.

You are a hands-on observability engineer with strong experience in modern monitoring tooling and cloud environments.

Responsibilities • Lead the migration of observability tooling from Grafana to Datadog • Recreate and optimise dashboards, alerts, and monitoring configurations • Ensure metrics, logs, and traces are correctly integrated and visualised in Datadog • Improve visibility, alerting, and operational insights across the platform • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure minimal disruption during migration • Apply best practices for observability, monitoring, and alerting Requirements • Strong experience with Datadog (essential) • Experience working with Grafana (migration experience highly desirable) • Good understanding of observability principles (metrics, logs, tracing) • Experience working in AWS environments • Ability to work independently and deliver in a short timeframe Benefits • Short, focused engagement with clear deliverables • Opportunity to work on modern cloud platforms • Fully remote and flexible • Fast interview process and quick start