Senior Dynatrace SME - Observability Architect (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert needed for a remote contract with Eliassen Group. Lead design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions across hybrid environments, collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, DB, SRE and operations teams.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise and strong infrastructure observability and database monitoring skills across cloud and on‑prem platforms.

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, ActiveGateway, 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 SME

Infrastructure monitoring

Cloud platforms

Linux admin

Windows admin

SRE practices

Database monitoring

Problem solving

Tools

OneAgent

ActiveGateway

Davis AI

Smartscape

Synthetic Monitoring

RUM

Metrics & Events API

Log Management

Distributed Tracing

Service Flow Analysis

Job description

Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert needed for a remote contract with Eliassen Group. Lead design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability solutions across hybrid environments, collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, DB, SRE and operations teams.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise and strong infrastructure observability and database monitoring skills across cloud and on‑prem platforms.