Remote Dynatrace SME – Observability & Performance Lead

Eliassen Group

Augusta (ME)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 123,000

Part time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise observability solutions across hybrid environments. The role collaborates with infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams to improve reliability and visibility.

The candidate will administer Dynatrace tenants, deploy OneAgent and ActiveGates, and develop dashboards, alerts, and SOPs. Strong expertise in Linux/Windows, cloud, and database monitoring is required.

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.

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.