Remote Dynatrace SME - Observability & DB Monitoring

Eliassen Group; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and support of enterprise observability across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability and visibility.

The role requires 3+ years of Dynatrace administration with 5+ years in IT infrastructure; strong admin and monitoring capabilities are essential. This is a remote, W2 position offering a comprehensive benefits package.

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.
• 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.

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 administration

Infrastructure observability

Windows/Linux administration

Cloud & virtualization

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Tools

Dynatrace OneAgent

ActiveGates

Davis AI

Smartscape

Synthetic Monitoring

RUM

ServiceNow

Splunk

PagerDuty

Jira

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and support of enterprise observability across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability and visibility.

The role requires 3+ years of Dynatrace administration with 5+ years in IT infrastructure; strong admin and monitoring capabilities are essential. This is a remote, W2 position offering a comprehensive benefits package.