Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert

Eliassen Group; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits (W2)

Dental benefits (W2)

Vision benefits (W2)

401k with company matching (W2)

Life insurance (W2)

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions across hybrid environments. The role partners with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability, performance, and visibility.

Candidates should have deep Dynatrace administration expertise and experience with monitoring of Windows, Linux, VMware, Kubernetes, and various databases, plus strong scripting and

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.
• Expertise with Dynatrace capabilities: OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing, Service Flow Analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows administration, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, networks, and containers.
• Database performance monitoring and troubleshooting for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, including execution plan analysis and query optimization.

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

Dynatrace SME

Infrastructure observability

Linux administration

Windows administration

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Database monitoring

Tools

Dynatrace

PowerShell

Python

Terraform IaC

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

Description:

Remote

Our client 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. The role partners with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and visibility. The ideal candidate demonstrates deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and database monitoring strategies across cloud and on‑premises platforms.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80.00 to $89.00/hr. w2

JN -092026-108598

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.

Experience Requirements:

• 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, ActiveGate, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing, Service Flow Analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows administration, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, networks, and containers.
• Database performance monitoring and troubleshooting for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, including execution plan analysis and query optimization.