Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Dev Ops

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard

Hours:

Open

Remote

Our client seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions with emphasis on infrastructure and database monitoring across hybrid environments. The role partners with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and visibility. The ideal candidate demonstrates deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and database monitoring strategies across cloud and on-premises platforms.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80.00 to $89.00/hr. w2

• Serve as the primary Dynatrace SME supporting enterprise observability initiatives.

• Design, implement, configure, and optimize Dynatrace monitoring solutions.

• Administer Dynatrace tenants, One Agent deployments, Active Gates, integrations, and upgrades.

• Establish monitoring standards, governance, naming conventions, alerting strategies, and dashboards.

• Promote observability best practices across infrastructure, cloud, databases, and middleware.

• Monitor and analyze performance of Windows, Linux/Unix, VMware, Kubernetes/Open Shift, public cloud services, storage, network, and load balancing.

• Configure dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection, and capacity planning reports.

• Design and support database monitoring for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and DB2 where applicable.

• Analyze query performance, resource utilization, locking, deadlocks, and transactions.

• Develop database observability dashboards and KPI reporting with DBAs.

• Build intelligent alerting to reduce noise and improve incident response.

• Develop custom metrics, extensions, synthetic monitoring, SLIs, SLOs, and availability monitoring.

• Implement event correlation and root cause analysis workflows.

• Integrate Dynatrace with Service Now, Splunk, Pager Duty, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Automate with Power Shell, Python, Bash, and support Terraform-based IaC.

• Participate in production support and major incident management, lead RCA, and create runbooks.

• Mentor engineers and support teams.

• 5+ years in IT Infrastructure, Monitoring, SRE, Operations Engineering, or Observability Engineering.

• 3+ years of hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.

• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of monitored hosts and services.

• Successful delivery of observability solutions in highly available production environments.

• Expertise with Dynatrace capabilities:
  One Agent, Active Gateway, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing, Service Flow Analysis.

• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows administration, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, networks, and containers.

• Database performance monitoring and troubleshooting for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, including execution plan analysis and query optimization.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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