Dynatrace Observability Engineer

Job Description

Dynatrace Observability Engineer

Experience required: 10+ years

• Administer and maintain the Dynatrace platform, including upgrades, configurations, integrations, and governance.
• Deploy and manage One Agents and Active Gates across cloud, on‑premise, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Open Shift).
• Build and manage dashboards, alerts, SLOs, custom events, tagging rules, and management zones.
• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring for applications, APIs, infrastructure, logs, and user experience.
• Configure distributed tracing, service flow mapping, synthetic monitoring, and RUM.
• Develop automated instrumentation strategies for microservices, serverless functions, and container workloads.
• Analyze application performance, latency, bottlenecks, and error trends using Davis AI insights.
• Partner with application teams to drive performance tuning and root‑cause remediation.
• Define SLOs, SLIs aligned with business KPIs and reliability objectives.
• Integrate Dynatrace with CICD pipelines, ITSM tools, logging platforms, and event management systems.
• Build automation scripts (Power Shell, Bash, Python, Ansible) to streamline deployments and configuration.
• Support observability‑as‑code using Dynatrace Monitoring‑as‑Code (Monaco) or Terraform.
• Provide observability insights during major incidents and post‑incident reviews; deliver reports and analytics that highlight trends, improvements, and system health.
• Act as subject‑matter expert for monitoring strategies and observability best practices.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills in fast‑paced environments.

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience with Dynatrace APM (SaaS or Managed environment).
• Strong understanding of observability pillars: metrics, logs, traces, events.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Experience configuring dashboards, alerts, tagging rules, and management zones.
• Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, APIs, and application performance concepts.
• Proficiency with automation scripting tools (Python, Bash, Power Shell, YAML).
• Familiarity with CICD tools (Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab).
• Experience with Dynatrace Platform Administration, API, and integration work.
• Ability to develop observability solutions across hybrid‑cloud or multi‑cloud environments.

• Digital:
  Splunk
• Digital:
  Salesforce Development and Technical Design
• Dynatrace – must have

• Pay Rate: $80.00 per hour
• Location:
  
  McLean, VA 22102
• No relocation assistance

Dynatrace employs a policy of complying with EEO laws and does not discriminate on any basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.