Dynatrace Engineer: Observability & DevOps Expert

Socket.dev

Columbus (OH)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Orion Innovation is seeking a Dynatrace Engineer to implement and configure Dynatrace across enterprise systems, enabling end-to-end observability for applications, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes building standardized monitoring, dashboards, and KPIs, with strong collaboration across DevOps and application teams. Experience in hybrid-cloud environments and RUM/Synthetic Monitoring is required.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Five (5) or more years of enterprise monitoring or observability experience.
Three (3) or more years of hands‑on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
Experience supporting cloud and hybrid enterprise environments.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Experience leading customer/application onboarding workshops and monitoring discovery sessions.
Experience deploying and supporting Dynatrace ActiveGate architecture.
Hands‑on experience implementing Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM).
Experience onboarding cloud‑native and hybrid applications into Dynatrace.

Responsibilities

Assess the current monitoring, logging, and observability environment.
Evaluate existing monitoring tools, instrumentation, and operational practices.
Identify monitoring gaps and support the observability maturity assessment.
Install, configure, and administer Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate.
Configure management zones, tagging standards, dashboards, and alerting.
Establish standardized monitoring for applications and infrastructure.
Instrument pilot applications using Dynatrace best practices.
Configure application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, metrics, and log collection.
Validate application telemetry and end-to-end visibility.
Integrate Dynatrace with CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment validation.
Configure deployment markers, release tagging, and quality gates.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to embed observability into the software delivery lifecycle.
Develop dashboards for engineering and business stakeholders.
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, KPIs, and alerting standards.
Support operational reporting and service health monitoring.
Develop technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.
Support knowledge transfer sessions with application, operations, and DevOps teams.