Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
Dynatrace
SaaS
Managed
AWS
Azure
GCP
metrics
logs
traces
OneAgent
ActiveGate
RUM
Python
Shell)
Job Details
Role :: Dynatrace Observability Engineer
Location :: Mclean VA Onsite
Type :: Fulltime
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- 3 5+ years hands-on experience with Dynatrace (SaaS or Managed) as a primary monitoring platform.
- Deep understanding of observability pillars: metrics, logs, traces.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and hybrid environments.
- Expertise in deploying and managing Dynatrace OneAgent, ActiveGate, RUM (Real User Monitoring), and Synthetic Monitoring.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry concepts and other observability standards.
- Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and containerized workloads (Kubernetes).
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and automation scripting (Python, Shell).
- Good knowledge of ITSM/incident management tools integration.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and manage the Dynatrace platform to monitor applications, services, servers, networks, and cloud resources.
- Define monitoring strategies, custom metrics, SLOs/SLIs, synthetic tests, and distributed tracing within Dynatrace.
- Develop custom dashboards, anomaly detection, problem detection rules, and service flow visualizations.
- Integrate Dynatrace with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira) and CI/CD pipelines for proactive monitoring.
- Analyze telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks, availability risks, and system anomalies.
- Lead observability reviews and recommend enhancements to improve system monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities.
- Advocate Dynatrace best practices across development and operations teams (OneAgent deployment, tagging, smartscape, etc.).
- Enable automatic and dynamic baseline creation for anomaly detection.
- Work with cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift) to implement cloud-native monitoring.
- Produce regular reports on system health, performance KPIs, and service level adherence.
- Participate in incident response activities and postmortem analyses using Dynatrace-provided insights.
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