Principal Observability Architect | Dynatrace Expert

FreedomPay; Select (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

FreedomPay is seeking a Principal Observability Engineer to define and advance enterprise observability strategy across applications, platforms, and cloud infrastructure. You will lead the adoption of Dynatrace SaaS and OpenTelemetry, guiding architecture decisions and telemetry standards.

You will collaborate across engineering, site reliability, platform, security, and operations teams to move from traditional monitoring to intelligent, adaptive observability, mentoring engineers and shaping

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in observability, monitoring, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on Dynatrace SaaS experience and latest platform capabilities.
• Strong experience with OpenTelemetry and telemetry instrumentation.
• Experience designing observability for cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AIOps or agentic operations.
• Strong understanding of metrics, logs, traces, event correlation, and alerting.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive adoption across teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise observability vision, standards, and roadmap.
• Lead implementation, optimization, and adoption of Dynatrace SaaS enterprise-wide.
• Establish scalable telemetry architecture and OpenTelemetry standards.
• Design observability solutions for Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and cloud environments.
• Apply AIOps and agentic operations to strengthen detection, automation, and diagnostics.
• Develop service health models, dashboards, and alerting strategies for reliability.
• Collaborate across engineering, security, infrastructure, and architecture teams to expand maturity.
• Guide transition from legacy monitoring to modern observability models.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Metrics/logs/traces expertise

Mentoring engineers

Communication (verbal & written)

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Dynatrace SaaS

OpenTelemetry

Job description

FreedomPay is seeking a Principal Observability Engineer to define and advance enterprise observability strategy across applications, platforms, and cloud infrastructure. You will lead the adoption of Dynatrace SaaS and OpenTelemetry, guiding architecture decisions and telemetry standards.

You will collaborate across engineering, site reliability, platform, security, and operations teams to move from traditional monitoring to intelligent, adaptive observability, mentoring engineers and shaping