**Description**

The Cloud Engineer - Senior (Observability - DataDog) supports the SEC ISS contract by engineering,operating, and continuously improving the enterprise observability platform across hybrid cloud and containerized environments. This role is hands-on: instruments services with distributed tracing, code-level profiling, and custom metrics; builds and tunes Datadog (or comparable) dashboards, alerts, APM, log pipelines, RUM, and synthetic monitors; then uses that telemetry to solve production performance, reliability, and capacity problems. The engineer partners with cloud, platform, and application teams to embed observability into Azure, AWS, and container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes), and drives reduction of alert noise, mean time to detect (MTTD), and mean time to resolve (MTTR). This position provides senior technical leadership for APM/distributed tracing strategy, SLO/SLI engineering, and data-driven operational decision-making in a 24x7x365 operating en...