Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer — AI-Driven Insights

Kforce Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce has a client in New York, NY seeking a Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer to establish comprehensive visibility across applications, infrastructure, databases, integrations, and third‑party services. The role requires correlating performance data across layers, identifying service dependencies, and translating findings into actionable operational insights.

The successful candidate will work with infrastructure, application, operations, and security teams to enhance observability,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise monitoring, application performance management, or observability engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and administering Dynatrace in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience implementing application performance monitoring and distributed transaction tracing.
• Experience configuring automated application and infrastructure dependency mapping.
• Experience monitoring Windows and Linux infrastructure and virtualized environments.
• Experience configuring dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, and performance analytics.
• Experience with digital experience monitoring, including Real User Monitoring and/or Synthetic Monitoring.
• Strong expertise in application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure observability, distributed transaction tracing, automated dependency discovery, digital experience monitoring, and AI-driven root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated expertise with Dynatrace OneAgent, ActiveGate, Smartscape, and Davis AI.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and modern Dynatrace analytics capabilities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues spanning multiple infrastructure and application layers.

Responsibilities

• Establish comprehensive visibility across complex enterprise environments, including applications, infrastructure, databases, integrations, and third-party services.
• Correlate performance data across multiple technology layers and identify service dependencies.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical findings into actionable operational insights.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, operations, and security teams to enhance observability capabilities and proactive monitoring practices.

Skills

Dynatrace expertise

Observability engineering

Enterprise monitoring

APM & tracing

Dependency mapping

Windows & Linux

Dashboards & alerts

RUM & synthetic monitoring

Dynatrace components

APIs & databases

DQL knowledge

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Job description

Kforce has a client in New York, NY seeking a Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer to establish comprehensive visibility across applications, infrastructure, databases, integrations, and third‑party services. The role requires correlating performance data across layers, identifying service dependencies, and translating findings into actionable operational insights.

The successful candidate will work with infrastructure, application, operations, and security teams to enhance observability,