Dynatrace SME - Observability Lead (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise observability across hybrid environments in a remote contract role. You will design and optimize Dynatrace monitoring, administer tenants and deployments, and mentor teams to improve reliability and performance.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years of Dynatrace administration, with strong Linux/Windows, cloud, and container knowledge.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT infrastructure, monitoring, SRE, operations, or observability engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of hosts/services.
• Expertise with Dynatrace capabilities: OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Windows administration, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, networks, and containers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Dynatrace SME for enterprise observability initiatives.
• Design, implement, configure, and optimize Dynatrace monitoring solutions.
• Administer Dynatrace tenants, OneAgent deployments, ActiveGates, integrations, and upgrades.
• Establish monitoring standards, governance, naming conventions, and dashboards.
• Promote observability best practices across infrastructure, cloud, databases, and middleware.
• Monitor performance of Windows, Linux/Unix, VMware, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud services, storage, network, and load balancing.
• Configure dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection, and capacity planning reports.
• Design and support database monitoring for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and DB2.
• Analyze query performance, resource utilization, locking, deadlocks, and transactions.
• Develop database observability dashboards and KPI reporting with DBAs.
• Build intelligent alerting to reduce noise and improve incident response.
• Develop custom metrics, extensions, synthetic monitoring, SLIs, SLOs, and availability monitoring.
• Implement event correlation and root cause analysis workflows.
• Integrate Dynatrace with ServiceNow, Splunk, PagerDuty, Jira, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate with PowerShell, Python, Bash, and support Terraform-based IaC.
• Participate in production support and major incident management, lead RCA, and create runbooks.
• Mentor engineers and support teams.

Tools

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Davis AI

Smartscape

Synthetic Monitoring

RUM

Metrics and Events API

Log Management

Distributed Tracing

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise observability across hybrid environments in a remote contract role. You will design and optimize Dynatrace monitoring, administer tenants and deployments, and mentor teams to improve reliability and performance.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years of Dynatrace administration, with strong Linux/Windows, cloud, and container knowledge.