Dynatrace Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Chennai District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer/Analyst to support platform engineering and day-to-day Dynatrace operations. The role covers administration, troubleshooting, dashboarding, and implementing OpenTelemetry across Windows, Linux, and cloud/Kubernetes environments.

You will act as the Dynatrace SME, optimize alerting, and design/maintain data visibility across applications and platforms. This position emphasizes proactive observability and reliable data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Dynatrace observability experience.
• Deploy and operate OneAgent and ActiveGates.
• Implement OpenTelemetry for workloads.
• Build dashboards and manage alerting and data gaps.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Dynatrace (SaaS/Managed): alerting, anomaly detection, dashboards, DQL, management zones, and tagging
• Act as Dynatrace SME: field questions, troubleshoot issues, tune alerts, and fix data gaps
• Build and maintain dashboards and DQL queries for app, platform, and operational visibility
• Deploy and support OneAgent on Windows & Linux Azure VMs, Kubernetes / AKS, Function Apps OneAgent Extension
• Design, deploy, and operate ActiveGates for VM traffic routing, synthetic private locations, extension execution
• Configure and support OneAgent & ActiveGate extensions and OpenTelemetry for Azure Function Apps (Linux) and other workloads

Tools

Dynatrace

OneAgent

ActiveGates

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Azure

Windows

Linux

DQL

Dashboards

Job description

Senior Observability Engineer / Analyst Dynatrace

Looking for a seniorlevel Dynatrace Observability Engineer / Analyst to support both platform engineering and day to day operational use of Dynatrace.

Core Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Dynatrace (SaaS/Managed): alerting, anomaly detection, dashboards, DQL, management zones, and tagging
• Act as Dynatrace SME: field questions, troubleshoot issues, tune alerts, and fix data gaps
• Build and maintain dashboards and DQL queries for app, platform, and operational visibility
• Deploy and support OneAgent on:
• Windows & Linux Azure VMs
• Kubernetes / AKS
• Function Apps (Windows) OneAgent Extension based
• Design, deploy, and operate ActiveGates for:
• VM traffic routing
• Synthetic private locations
• Extension execution (ActiveGatebased extensions)
• Configure and support OneAgent & ActiveGate extensions
• Implement and support OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for Azure Function Apps (Linux) and other custom workloads