Senior Dynatrace Platform Architect – Observability

ZipStaff Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) + 401(k) matching

Paid time off

Referral Program

Job summary

ZipStaff is seeking a Principal Dynatrace Platform Engineer to lead the enterprise observability program and act as the Dynatrace SME for a national transportation client. You will own the architecture, design, and deployment of scalable, self-service automation for observability across hybrid-cloud environments, using advanced features like Davis AI and synthetic monitoring.

You will collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to ensure robust instrumentation, governance, and incident post-mortems, while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in APM and observability administration.
• Dynatrace Master/Gold certification preferred.
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, PowerShell or Go with Dynatrace API usage.
• Experience deploying OneAgent and ActiveGates across cloud/on-prem.
• CI/CD pipelines integration and Terraform/Monaco IaC experience.
• Excellent communication with technical leadership and stakeholders.
• On-site work in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain high-availability Dynatrace deployments across multi-cloud and on-prem.
• Build self-service automation tools, APIs, and CI/CD integrations for deployments and monitoring lifecycle.
• Leverage Davis AI, Cloud Automation, SLO dashboards, and distributed tracing.
• Define observability governance, tagging, and alerting in code (Monaco/Terraform).
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to drive adoption and post-mortem analyses.

Skills

APM/Observability

Dynatrace Master

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell

Go language

CI/CD pipelines

SRE collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Dynatrace Master certification

Tools

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Monaco

Job description

ZipStaff is seeking a Principal Dynatrace Platform Engineer to lead the enterprise observability program and act as the Dynatrace SME for a national transportation client. You will own the architecture, design, and deployment of scalable, self-service automation for observability across hybrid-cloud environments, using advanced features like Davis AI and synthetic monitoring.

You will collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to ensure robust instrumentation, governance, and incident post-mortems, while