Remote Dynatrace Observability Lead

Eliassen Group; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to design, implement, and optimize enterprise observability across hybrid environments. The role collaborates with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability and visibility.

Ideal candidates have deep Dynatrace admin experience, robust infrastructure observability practices, and strong database monitoring strategies for cloud and on-prem systems.

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, virtualization, networks, and containers.
• Database performance monitoring and troubleshooting for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

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 admin

Linux admin

Cloud platforms

Observability

SRE practices

Tools

Dynatrace OneAgent

ActiveGate

Davis AI

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to design, implement, and optimize enterprise observability across hybrid environments. The role collaborates with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability and visibility.

Ideal candidates have deep Dynatrace admin experience, robust infrastructure observability practices, and strong database monitoring strategies for cloud and on-prem systems.