Remote Dynatrace SME — Observability & Infra

Eliassen Group; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert for a remote contract role, focusing on enterprise observability across hybrid environments. The candidate will lead Dynatrace design, implementation, and optimization, working with infrastructure, cloud, database, and SRE teams.

Requirements include 5+ years in IT infrastructure/observability and 3+ years in Dynatrace administration. W2 benefits apply, including medical, dental, vision, 401k match, and life insurance.

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 infra, 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.

Tools

Dynatrace

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Davis AI

Smartscape

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert for a remote contract role, focusing on enterprise observability across hybrid environments. The candidate will lead Dynatrace design, implementation, and optimization, working with infrastructure, cloud, database, and SRE teams.

Requirements include 5+ years in IT infrastructure/observability and 3+ years in Dynatrace administration. W2 benefits apply, including medical, dental, vision, 401k match, and life insurance.