Dynatrace SME - Observability Leader (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert for a remote contract in the financial services sector. You will lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise observability with emphasis on infrastructure and database monitoring across hybrid environments.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and experience integrating with cloud, DB, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT Infrastructure, Monitoring, SRE, Operations Engineering, or Observability Engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of monitored hosts and services.
• Successful delivery of observability solutions in highly available production environments.
• Expertise with Dynatrace capabilities: OneAgent, ActiveGateway, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing, Service Flow Analysis.

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

Observability

SRE

Troubleshooting

Automation

Tools

Dynatrace

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Bash

ServiceNow

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert for a remote contract in the financial services sector. You will lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise observability with emphasis on infrastructure and database monitoring across hybrid environments.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and experience integrating with cloud, DB, and operations teams.