Senior Solutions Architect — Cloud & Observability Lead

Dynatrace; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynatrace seeks an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of our monitoring solutions for large enterprise accounts. You will guide highly skilled engineers, contribute code when needed, and work with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google) and Kubernetes-based environments.

Remote work with occasional travel, strong communication, and deep product/engineering collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or additional 5 years of relevant Information Technology experience accepted in lieu of degree.
• 7+ years of real world experience in software and/or solution engineering.
• 7+ years experience leading and consulting in large Enterprise/Corporate environments a must.
• Prior Experience using Dynatrace or managing APM solutions a major plus.
• Solid understanding of Cloud technologies and offerings such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with at least expertise and/or certification in one.
• Solid understanding of network topologies, routing, network security, security protocols, routing, load balancers and capacity planning.
• Solid understanding of a Container based solutions using Kubernetes and similar products. Service mesh experience a plus.
• Excellent communicator and writing skills with ability to consult and lead multi-day meetings to assess technologies and processes.
• Solid understanding of Application and/or Infrastructure Monitoring & Observability.
• Develop automation and repeatable processes/scripts to enable solutions that deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor Client applications is a plus.
• Solid understanding of tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, GoCD, Jenkins, TFS and similar products.
• Solid understanding of PaaS concepts and implementations such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, BlueMix or similar offerings.
• 7+ years of prior development experience in at least one object-oriented language (Java/.NET).
• Solid to Expert hands on experience with SQL a plus.
• Previous experience with enterprise logging technologies and strategies.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting performance and other issues.
• Experience with automated provisioning and testing of resources.
• Enterprise Architecture planning and design skills; Diagrams is desired.
• Strong analytical, organizational, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of monitoring solutions through a repeatable services engagement model.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to articulate gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide hands-on solutioning and code contributions as needed for team or customer deployments.
• Communicate effectively with customers and internal teams to gather requirements and drive deliverables.
• Travel minimal to moderate as needed.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud technologies

Automation

Programming experience

SQL

Java

C#

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's Degree

IT experience alternative

Tools

Dynatrace

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Kubernetes

GoCD

Jenkins

Job description

Dynatrace seeks an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of our monitoring solutions for large enterprise accounts. You will guide highly skilled engineers, contribute code when needed, and work with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google) and Kubernetes-based environments.

Remote work with occasional travel, strong communication, and deep product/engineering collaboration are essential.