Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources;
Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams;
Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices;
Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution;
Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities;
Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities;
Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success.

Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations;
A demonstrable track-record and never-ending passion for learning;
A self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom;
Confident presentation skills;
Must be a current EU resident
Desired hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
Dev/Scripting: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go
Config Mgmt: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
CI / CD: Jenkins, Gitlab

Partner Solutions Architect – EMEA

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