Senior Observability Engineer: Dynatrace & Automation

Optum; La Crosse (WI); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to lead Dynatrace-based monitoring and automation across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes Dynatrace administration, Python development, CI/CD engineering, and Observability-as-Code practices to support critical applications. Strong automation and self-service capabilities are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Dynatrace engineering experience.
• 5+ years supporting enterprise observability, monitoring, or SRE platforms.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Experience utilizing Dynatrace APIs and configuration automation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical SME for Dynatrace Managed and Dynatrace SaaS environments.
• Design, implement, and maintain Dynatrace monitoring standards, management zones, alerting strategies, tagging frameworks, and service ownership models.
• Configure and optimize OneAgent, ActiveGate, Distributed Tracing, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, Davis AI, and Automation Workflows.
• Develop enterprise observability standards and governance practices.
• Python Development & Automation – develop automation solutions to streamline observability operations.
• CI/CD & Observability as Code – implement Observability-as-Code using Monaco, Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Build automated deployment pipelines for Dynatrace configurations, dashboards, alerting profiles, SLOs, management zones.

Skills

Dynatrace engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Dynatrace APIs

Distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Prometheus

Fluent Bit

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Prometheus

Fluent Bit

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to lead Dynatrace-based monitoring and automation across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes Dynatrace administration, Python development, CI/CD engineering, and Observability-as-Code practices to support critical applications. Strong automation and self-service capabilities are expected.