Remote Dynatrace SME - Observability Architect (Contract)

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with company matching

Dental

Vision insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise observability initiatives across hybrid environments. You will design, implement, and optimize Dynatrace monitoring for infrastructure and databases, collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability and visibility.

The ideal candidate brings deep Dynatrace administration expertise and strong observability practices, delivering scalable solutions for large production

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in IT infrastructure or observability roles.
• 3+ years hands-on Dynatrace administration.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments.
• Knowledge of Dynatrace features: OneAgent, ActiveGates, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Metrics & Events API, Log Management, Distributed Tracing.
• Strong Linux/Windows, cloud, virtualization, networks, and containers.

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 across Windows, Linux/Unix, VMware, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud services, storage, networks, 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 administration

Infrastructure observability

Windows/Linux administration

Databases monitoring

PowerShell/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Dynatrace OneAgent

ActiveGates

ServiceNow integration

Terraform

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead enterprise observability initiatives across hybrid environments. You will design, implement, and optimize Dynatrace monitoring for infrastructure and databases, collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to enhance reliability and visibility.

The ideal candidate brings deep Dynatrace administration expertise and strong observability practices, delivering scalable solutions for large production