Observability Engineer

Role – Observability Engineer ( Hybrid) Duration — 12 month Location – Nashville, TN (Required local profile with  ) Role Summary

The Observability Engineer is responsible for deploying and managing Dynatrace to deliver full-stack observability across applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. This role focuses on migrating environments from App Dynamics and Splunk to Dynatrace while building dashboards, alerts, DQL, and SLOs to proactively monitor system health. The engineer will work closely with development, operations, and SRE teams to instrument services, analyze telemetry, and optimize system reliability.

• Deploy and manage Dynatrace to deliver full-stack observability across cloud and on-premise platforms.
• Execute “hands-on-keyboard” migration tasks from App Dynamics and Splunk to Dynatrace.
• Design and implement dashboards, alerting mechanisms, DQL (Dynatrace Query Language), and SLOs.
• Proactively monitor system health and detect performance issues to support incident resolution.
• Instrument services and analyze telemetry data to optimize system performance.
• Collaborate with SRE and Dev Ops teams to integrate observability into modern workflows.

• Dynatrace
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  Expert-level hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and administration.
• App Dynamics (AppD): 2–4 years of experience (Expert level) for migration purposes.
• Splunk
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  Hands-on experience designing and implementing monitoring solutions.
• Operating Systems
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  Extensive hands-on experience with underlying OS environments.
• Education
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  Bachelor’s degree required.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
• Deployment automation.

• Technical expert capable of high-level independent execution (“hands‑on‑keyboard”).
• Collaborative mindset for working across development and operations teams.
• Strong analytical skills for telemetry and performance optimization.