Dynatrace/Observability Engineer | £528 per day INSIDE

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 114,000; Part time

Job summary

Hays Specialist Recruitment is seeking a Dynatrace/Observability Engineer for a 6-month contract in Telford, Shropshire. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across technologies to ensure service stability and proactive incident management.

You will translate requirements into Dynatrace configurations, deliver full-stack observability including logs, dashboards, and synthetic monitoring, and collaborate with architects to integrate monitoring into

Qualifications

• Proven Dynatrace configuration experience and alerting.
• Strong knowledge of observability across full stack.
• Experience with automation (Terraform or Monaco).
• SRE principles and incident management experience.
• Ability to document and communicate complex configs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into Dynatrace configurations.
• Deliver full-stack observability solutions.
• Integrate monitoring into solution designs with project teams.
• Maintain dashboards, alerts, and visualisations.
• Drive continuous improvement in monitoring maturity.

Skills

Dynatrace

APM Tooling

Terraform

Monaco

DQL Queries

SRE Principles

Observability

Tools

Dynatrace

Terraform

Monaco

Job description

Dynatrace/Observability Engineer | £528 per day INSIDE

Employer:

Hays Specialist Recruitment

Location:

Telford,Shropshire, TF3 4ER

Contract Type:

Contract

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

12/08/2026

About this job

Job Title: Dynatrace/Observability Engineer Rate: £528 per day INSIDE Clearance Required: SC Eligible Duration: 6 months Location: Telford - 2 days min per month Mandatory Certifications: Dynatrace Associate Certification As a Dynatrace/Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.

Key Responsibilities: Translate high-level monitoring and non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations in Dynatrace.

Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.

Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.

Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.

Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency within immature teams.

Required Skills and Experience: Strong experience configuring Dynatrace alerts, workflows, extensions, DQL Queries Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling, including Dynatrace Experience delivering Dynatrace configuration using automation (Terraform or Monaco) Hands-on experience with monitoring tools including Dynatrace Strong understanding of and experience of SRE principals and methodologies Strong understanding of observability within a complex tech stack.

Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.

Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.