Senior Dynatrace Observability Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Rotterdam seeks a Senior Dynatrace Engineer to own end-to-end observability initiatives across applications, services and platforms.

You will design reusable onboarding patterns, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry standards, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. The role requires hands-on experience, collaboration in a scrum environment and comfort coaching delivery teams, with 60% on-site work in Rotterdam.

Qualifications

• Senior-level, hands-on Dynatrace implementation experience.
• Strong understanding of application, infrastructure and cloud observability.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC patterns for observability platform configuration or integration.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, release pipelines and SDLC-based engineering practices.
• Ability to work with APIs, platform configuration, automation scripts or related engineering tooling.
• Practical understanding of incident diagnosis, alert quality, operational monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Ability to operate independently and constructively challenge assumptions.
• Experience creating or reviewing design artefacts and working within structured backlog and release processes.
• Experience coaching internal engineers and delivery teams.
• Availability to work from the Rotterdam office approximately 60% of the week.
• Strong Azure knowledge, Kubernetes/container platforms, Observability as Code, configuration automation, and ServiceNow familiarity are nice-to-haves.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on Dynatrace implementation for prioritised applications, services and technical platforms
• Develop reusable Dynatrace onboarding patterns, dashboards, alerting rules, tags, service flows and detection patterns
• Improve telemetry quality, ownership metadata, environment consistency and diagnostic visibility
• Integrate observability requirements into CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, release readiness and operational acceptance criteria
• Coach internal engineers and delivery teams on Dynatrace implementation quality, dashboards, alerting and maintainable engineering practices
• Improve the quality and consistency of Dynatrace onboarding across priority applications and services
• Develop reusable monitoring, alerting, tagging, dashboarding and telemetry patterns
• Strengthen operational monitoring through improved incident diagnostics, alert quality and platform-team feedback loops
• Transfer practical Dynatrace knowledge to internal engineers and delivery teams
• Participate in refinement, planning, reviews and retrospectives as part of the scrum platform team
• Work transparently through backlog items, design artefacts, decision records and handover documentation
• Take an end-to-end approach covering discovery, design, build, release, operations, continuous improvement and enablement

Skills

Dynatrace

Terraform

CI/CD

APIs

Observability as Code

Kubernetes

Azure

Incident Diagnosis

Configuration Automation

SRE/Operational Monitoring

Tools

ServiceNow

Cloud Platforms

Job description

• Lead hands-on Dynatrace implementation for prioritised applications, services and technical platforms
• Develop reusable Dynatrace onboarding patterns, dashboards, alerting rules, tags, service flows and detection patterns
• Improve telemetry quality, ownership metadata, environment consistency and diagnostic visibility
• Integrate observability requirements into CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, release readiness and operational acceptance criteria
• Coach internal engineers and delivery teams on Dynatrace implementation quality, dashboards, alerting and maintainable engineering practices
• Improve the quality and consistency of Dynatrace onboarding across priority applications and services
• Develop reusable monitoring, alerting, tagging, dashboarding and telemetry patterns
• Strengthen operational monitoring through improved incident diagnostics, alert quality and platform-team feedback loops
• Transfer practical Dynatrace knowledge to internal engineers and delivery teams
• Participate in refinement, planning, reviews and retrospectives as part of the scrum platform team
• Work transparently through backlog items, design artefacts, decision records and handover documentation
• Take an end-to-end approach covering discovery, design, build, release, operations, continuous improvement and enablement

Requirements

• Senior-level, hands-on Dynatrace implementation experience
• Strong understanding of application, infrastructure and cloud observability
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code patterns for observability platform configuration or integration
• Good understanding of CI/CD, release pipelines and SDLC-based engineering practices
• Ability to work with APIs, platform configuration, automation scripts or related engineering tooling
• Practical understanding of incident diagnosis, alert quality, operational monitoring and continuous improvement
• Ability to operate independently and constructively challenge assumptions
• Experience creating or reviewing design artefacts and working within structured backlog and release processes
• Experience coaching internal engineers and delivery teams
• Availability to work from the Rotterdam office approximately 60% of the week
• Strong Azure knowledge, Kubernetes/container platforms, Observability as Code, configuration automation, and ServiceNow familiarity are nice-to-haves

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive hands-on experience in Dynatrace implementation, focusing on application and infrastructure observability, CI/CD integration, and operational monitoring. Capable of coaching teams on best practices and improving telemetry quality through effective monitoring and alerting strategies.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Dynatrace Implementation
• CI/CD Integration
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Incident Diagnosis
• Coaching Internal Engineers

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Dynatrace
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• APIs
• Operational Monitoring
• Incident Diagnosis
• Alert Quality
• Configuration Automation
• Observability as Code
• Kubernetes

Soft Skills

• Independent Work
• Constructive Challenge

Industry Keywords

• Observability
• Telemetry
• Scrum
• SDLC
• Backlog Management

Tools & Technologies

• ServiceNow
• Cloud Platforms