Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer

Required Technical Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise monitoring, application performance management (APM), or observability engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying, configuring, managing, and administering Dynatrace in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in Dynatrace OneAgent, ActiveGate, Smartscape, and Davis AI for application and infrastructure monitoring.
• Strong experience implementing application performance monitoring (APM), analyzing application performance, and performing distributed transaction tracing.
• Experience configuring automated application and infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping, and end-to-end observability.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance issues across application, middleware, database, network, and infrastructure layers.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, REST APIs, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience monitoring Windows and Linux servers, virtualized environments, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience configuring monitoring dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection, performance baselines, and analytics.
• Working knowledge of Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and modern Dynatrace analytics capabilities for querying, analyzing, and troubleshooting observability data.
• Experience with Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) and/or Synthetic Monitoring to assess application availability and user experience.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across application development and infrastructure teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Dynatrace monitoring solutions across enterprise environments.
• Manage Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate installations, configurations, upgrades, and operational health.
• Utilize Smartscape and Davis AI to identify dependencies, detect anomalies, and investigate performance issues.
• Implement and maintain application performance monitoring and distributed transaction tracing.
• Configure automated application discovery, infrastructure monitoring, and dependency mapping.
• Troubleshoot complex performance bottlenecks across applications, databases, middleware, and infrastructure components.
• Develop and maintain Dynatrace dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection rules, and performance analytics.
• Use DQL and Dynatrace analytics capabilities to investigate incidents, analyze telemetry data, and identify root causes.
• Implement Real User Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring to improve application availability and digital user experience.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability, performance, and availability.
• Establish monitoring standards, document configurations, and recommend observability improvements aligned with enterprise requirements.