Dynatrace SME: Observability Lead (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 229,233,000 - 255,021,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions with emphasis on infrastructure and database monitoring across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and visibility.

Applicants must be willing to work on a W2 basis and will receive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT Infrastructure, Monitoring, SRE, or Observability Engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
• Experience with enterprise-scale environments and monitoring across cloud and on-premises.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Dynatrace SME supporting 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, alerting strategies, and dashboards.
• Promote observability best practices across infrastructure, cloud, databases, and middleware.
• Monitor and analyze performance of Windows, Linux/Unix, VMware, Kubernetes/OpenShift, public 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 where applicable.
• 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.

Skills

IT Infrastructure

SRE

Observability Engineering

Operations Engineering

Cloud monitoring

Tools

Dynatrace OneAgent

ActiveGate

Davis AI

Smartscape

Synthetic Monitoring

RUM

Metrics & Events API

Log Management

Distributed Tracing

Service Flow Analysis

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead the design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions with emphasis on infrastructure and database monitoring across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and visibility.

Applicants must be willing to work on a W2 basis and will receive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company