Dynatrace Observability Engineeror Architect OpenStack Infrastructure

Religent Systems; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Religent Systems in Hyderabad seeks a Senior Observability Lead to drive enterprise observability across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. You will set CoE standards, governance, and roadmaps, and implement instrumentation guidelines, tagging, dashboards, and alerting.

You will design end-to-end observability for critical workflows, enrich traces with business context, and trace transactions across microservices, MQ, and external systems using Dynatrace PurePath.

Qualifications

• Experience leading observability initiatives across complex architectures.
• Proven ability to define instrumentation guidelines and naming conventions.
• Strong analytical and incident investigation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise observability strategy across applications, API platforms, infrastructure and services.
• Assess maturity across logs, metrics, traces, events, dashboards, and alerts.
• Define Observability CoE standards including instrumentation guidelines, naming conventions, tagging, and dashboards.
• Identify gaps and develop roadmaps aligned with business priorities and risks.
• Design end-to-end observability for critical workflows.
• Configure traces with business context like transaction IDs and service metadata.
• Trace distributed transactions across microservices, APIs, MQ, mainframes, and external systems with Dynatrace PurePath.
• Define and manage Dynatrace segmentation for multi-team environments.
• Use DQL for metrics analysis, dashboards, and reporting.
• Design alerting strategies using baselines, anomaly detection, and SLO-driven thresholds.
• Build audience-specific dashboards for executives, operations, engineering, and application teams.
• Leverage Dynatrace Smartscape and Davis AI for topology-aware root cause analysis.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Support observability across OpenStack-based infrastructure and cloud environments.

Skills

Dynatrace Platform

Distributed tracing

APM

SLO/SLA framework

Observability CoE

Instrumentation guidelines

Dashboards design

Root-cause analysis

OpenStack & cloud

ITSM integrations

Stakeholder collaboration

Multi-team collaboration

Tools

Dynatrace OneAgent

Dynatrace PurePath

Dynatrace Smartscape

DQL

Moogsoft

ITSM tools

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise observability strategy across applications, API platforms, infrastructure, and business-critical services.
• Assess observability maturity across logs, metrics, traces, events, dashboards, and alerts.
• Define and establish Observability CoE standards, including:
• Instrumentation guidelines
• Naming conventions
• Tagging and metadata standards
• Dashboard design principles
• Synthetic monitoring
• Alerting and escalation standards
• Identify observability gaps and develop structured improvement roadmaps aligned with business priorities and operational risks.
• Design and implement end-to-end observability for critical business workflows.
• Configure request attributes to enrich traces with business context such as transaction IDs, process identifiers, and service-specific metadata.
• Trace distributed transactions across microservices, APIs, MQ, mainframes, and external systems using Dynatrace PurePath.
• Define and manage Dynatrace Segmentation for multi-team, multi-application, and multi-environment environments.
• Use DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) for metrics analysis, operational analysis, dashboard development, and reporting.
• Design effective alerting strategies using baselines, anomaly detection, SLO-driven thresholds, and severity-based alerting to reduce alert noise.
• Build audience-specific dashboards for executives, operations, engineering, and application teams.
• Leverage Dynatrace Smartscape and Davis AI for topology-aware root-cause analysis and incident investigation.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical business services.
• Integrate SLOs and observability practices into release and operational processes.
• Support integration of Dynatrace with external platforms such as Moogsoft, ITSM tools, and event management solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, infrastructure, application, and business teams to drive observability adoption and continuous improvement.
• Support observability across OpenStack-based infrastructure and cloud environments.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Dynatrace Observability Platform.
• Strong knowledge of Dynatrace OneAgent, PurePath, Smartscape, Davis AI, DQL, dashboards, alerting, and monitoring.
• Experience with distributed tracing and application performance monitoring (APM).
• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, events, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience defining SLI, SLO, SLA, and error-budget frameworks.
• Experience with observability standards, governance, and Observability CoE initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, APIs, MQ, distributed systems, and enterprise applications.
• Experience with OpenStack infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Experience with ITSM/event management integrations.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with experience in root-cause analysis and incident investigation.
• Ability to work with multiple application, infrastructure, engineering, and business teams.