Senior Engineer- Application Performance Monitoring

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB); Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Engineer for Application Performance Monitoring. The successful candidate will implement APM tools, collaborate across teams, and ensure application health. Strong expertise in APM platforms like Dynatrace and a relevant degree are required. This full-time position offers opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• In-depth experience with leading APM platforms required.
• Strong understanding of distributed applications necessary.
• Skilled in analysing transaction traces.

Responsibilities

• Ensure end-to-end visibility of application health.
• Implement and manage modern APM tools.
• Collaborate with application owners for performance.

Skills

Application Performance Management

Distributed Applications

Microservices

Container Orchestration

Database Performance Tuning

Education

Relevant Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Dynatrace

New Relic

Datadog

Job description

Senior Engineer- Application Performance Monitoring

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Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

Job Description

Overall objectives

• To ensure end-to-end visibility of application health, performance, and user experience across critical business services.
• To implement and manage modern APM tools that support real-time insights, transaction tracing, and deep diagnostics of application behaviour.
• To support performance engineering, incident prevention, and rapid root cause analysis of application-related issues.
• To partner with DevOps, development, and infrastructure teams in creating a performance-centric culture backed by actionable telemetry.

Role specific responsibilities

Implement, configure, and manage enterprise-grade APM tools across the application landscape.

Build dashboards, alert policies, and SLA-based thresholds for business-critical applications.

Enable distributed tracing and service maps to visualise and diagnose performance across complex dependencies.

Collaborate with application owners and development teams to address recurring issues and improve code-level performance.

Ensure seamless integration of APM tools with CI / CD pipelines and incident response workflows.

Lead performance monitoring efforts during major application releases or seasonal peak loads.

Conduct APM health checks and ensure consistent telemetry coverage across environments (dev, test, prod).

General functional responsibilities

Maintain monitoring standards and documentation including runbooks, dashboards, and escalation guides.

Assist in defining and tracking service-level objectives (SLOs) and service-level agreements (SLAs).

Contribute to post-incident reviews and performance retrospectives to enhance visibility and reduce MTTR.

Support automation of alert routing, event correlation, and ticket enrichment using observability data.

Keep abreast of trends in application monitoring, including OpenTelemetry adoption and AI-powered diagnostics.

Support out-of-hours performance troubleshooting during P1 / P2 incidents as part of a rotating schedule.

Qualifications

Core competencies required

In-depth experience with leading APM platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Instana , or Datadog APM.

Strong understanding of distributed applications, microservices, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and service mesh technologies.

Skilled in analysing transaction traces, identifying bottlenecks, and pinpointing slow database calls or code-level inefficiencies.

Proficient in synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring (RUM), and load testing techniques.

Familiarity with telemetry pipelines, correlation of metrics / logs / traces, and service-level indicators (SLIs).

Capability to use data to produce baselines, detect anomalies, and support proactive performance tuning.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Finance

Industries

Banking

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