Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert (SME) & Team Lead

Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert (SME) & Team Lead

Anywhere

Type: Consulting

Category: DevOps

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -062026-107176

Date Posted: 05/31/2026

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Description:

Remote or optional onsite in NC or PHX, AZ or DFW, TX

Our client is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Team Lead to own enterprise observability and application performance monitoring across a large financial services environment. The role leads a team of six while serving as the primary expert for Dynatrace architecture, deployment, optimization, and governance. The leader will drive monitoring strategy, set standards for alerting and instrumentation, ensure full-stack visibility across hybrid environments, and partner with development, DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure teams to surface actionable insights that improve reliability and user experience.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80 to $85/hr. w2

JN -062026-107176

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of six Dynatrace engineers and analysts.

• Set team priorities, manage workload distribution, and ensure delivery against SLAs and KPIs.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence.

• Align observability initiatives with business goals in partnership with senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Own Dynatrace platform architecture, deployment, optimization, and governance.

• Design and maintain enterprise-scale Dynatrace environments, SaaS or Managed.

• Define and enforce monitoring standards, naming conventions, alerting strategies, and governance.

• Implement distributed tracing, RUM, synthetic and infrastructure monitoring, and AIOps capabilities.

• Optimize instrumentation for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

• Develop and execute an enterprise observability roadmap aligned to digital transformation.

• Drive adoption of full-stack monitoring across applications, infrastructure, and user experience.

• Identify and close observability gaps across critical systems.

• Lead performance analysis, root cause investigation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on performance engineering best practices.

• Support incident management and post-incident reviews with actionable insights.

• Deliver executive reporting and dashboards on health and performance trends.

• Ensure monitoring solutions meet security, audit, and compliance requirements for financial services.

• Maintain documentation, operational procedures, and platform standards.

• Support audit and regulatory activities related to monitoring and observability.

Experience Requirements:

• 6+ years of hands-on Dynatrace experience in large enterprise environments.

• 8+ years in APM, observability, or SRE.

• Proven experience leading or supervising technical teams.

• Expertise with OneAgent deployment and configuration, Smartscape topology, service flow mapping, alerting, dashboards, and custom metrics or events.

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries preferred.

• Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with microservices and containers including Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.

• Preferred: Dynatrace certifications, IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible, complementary tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Prometheus, scripting with Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and AIOps or automation-driven monitoring strategies.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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