Overview
On Site
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Skills
APM
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MONITORING
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
DYNATRACE
Job Details
Job Title: APM Engineer (Application Performance Management Engineer)
Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite 5 days a week)
Job Type: Long Term Contract
Employment Type: W2 Only
Experience Required: 12+ Years
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly experienced APM Engineer with deep expertise in building and optimizing observability solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will excel in configuring monitoring tools, developing automation scripts, and driving end-to-end performance visibility for large-scale distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite 5 days a week)
Job Type: Long Term Contract
Employment Type: W2 Only
Experience Required: 12+ Years
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly experienced APM Engineer with deep expertise in building and optimizing observability solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will excel in configuring monitoring tools, developing automation scripts, and driving end-to-end performance visibility for large-scale distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability
- Configure, implement, and optimize Dynatrace, Zabbix, PagerDuty, and Alertbot for full-stack application and infrastructure monitoring.
- Utilize Dynatrace DQL, APIs, custom extensions, and AI/OPS features to enhance observability and automated root-cause detection.
- Build dashboards, alerts, synthetic tests, and custom event processing rules.
- Enable monitoring across AWS, ECS, and on-prem servers.
- Monitor and analyze AWS services using CloudWatch, and integrate metrics and events with Dynatrace.
- Ensure comprehensive monitoring coverage for microservices, containers, load balancers, databases, and distributed systems.
- Create and manage PBIs (Product Backlog Items) in Azure DevOps for monitoring improvements, incidents, and automation tasks.
- Develop automation and integration scripts using Shell, PowerShell, and YAML.
- Work with CI/CD and infrastructure automation processes to embed observability standards.
- Configure alerting workflows and escalations using PagerDuty.
- Analyze performance trends, bottlenecks, and resource usage to provide actionable recommendations.
- Support production issues by identifying root causes with monitoring tools and logs.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 12+ years of IT experience with strong focus on APM, Observability, and Monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, Zabbix, PagerDuty, and Alertbot.
- Strong expertise in Dynatrace DQL, extensions, API integrations, and AI/OPS.
- Proven experience monitoring AWS, ECS, and hybrid/on-prem environments.
- Proficiency in CloudWatch monitoring and integrating AWS data with Dynatrace.
- Strong scripting experience in Shell, PowerShell, and YAML.
- Experience working with Azure DevOps and managing PBIs.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker, ECS, EKS, etc.).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps tooling.
- Experience in performance engineering or SRE environments.
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