Remote Dynatrace Observability Lead

Eliassen Group; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 73,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and optimization of observability across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes infrastructure and database monitoring, with strong collaboration across SRE, cloud, and operations teams. W2 benefits and a comprehensive package are included.

Remote work is supported. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years in Dynatrace administration, with experience in large-scale enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT Infrastructure, Monitoring, SRE, or Observability Engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
• Experience with enterprise-scale environments and large numbers of hosts/services.

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 engineering

Dynatrace administration

Infrastructure monitoring

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Database monitoring

SRE collaboration

Automation scripting

Tools

Dynatrace

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Jira

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and optimization of observability across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes infrastructure and database monitoring, with strong collaboration across SRE, cloud, and operations teams. W2 benefits and a comprehensive package are included.

Remote work is supported. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years in Dynatrace administration, with experience in large-scale enterprise