The Judge Group · 8 hours ago
Dynatrace Observability Engineer (1117026)
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $160K/yr
10+ years expThe Judge Group is seeking a highly skilled Senior Dynatrace Observability Engineer to own and scale the Dynatrace platform across complex enterprise environments. This role focuses on application performance monitoring, observability engineering, automation, and reliability to support cloud-native and hybrid systems.
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Responsibilities
Administer and maintain the Dynatrace platform, including upgrades, configurations, integrations, and governance
Deploy and manage OneAgents and ActiveGates across cloud, on-premise, and containerized environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
Build and manage dashboards, alerts, SLOs, custom events, tagging rules, and management zones
Implement end-to-end monitoring for applications, APIs, infrastructure, logs, and user experience
Configure:
Distributed tracing
Service flow mapping
Synthetic monitoring
Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Develop automated instrumentation strategies for:
Microservices
Serverless functions
Containerized workloads
Analyze performance, latency, bottlenecks, and error trends using Davis AI
Partner with application teams to drive performance tuning and root cause remediation
Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs aligned with business KPIs and reliability objectives
Integrate Dynatrace with:
CI/CD pipelines
ITSM tools
Logging and event management platforms
Build automation scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible) to streamline deployments and configurations
Support observability-as-code using Dynatrace Monaco or Terraform
Provide observability insights during production incidents and post-incident reviews
Deliver reports highlighting system health, performance trends, and continuous improvements
Act as an SME for monitoring strategy and observability best practices
Qualification
Required
10+ years of hands-on experience with Dynatrace APM (SaaS or Managed environments)
Strong understanding of observability pillars: metrics, logs, traces, and events
Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or Kubernetes
Experience configuring: Dashboards, alerts, SLOs, Tagging rules and management zones
Solid understanding of: Microservices and distributed systems, APIs and application performance concepts
Proficiency with automation and scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML
Working knowledge of CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab
Preferred
Dynatrace certifications (Associate, Professional, or extensions in APM, Cloud, or Kubernetes)
Experience with Monaco (Monitoring as Code), Dynatrace Grail/Logs, or OpenTelemetry
Exposure to SRE practices, chaos engineering, or performance engineering
Experience integrating Dynatrace with enterprise tools such as: ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Slack or Microsoft Teams
Knowledge of network monitoring and synthetic testing
Company
The Judge Group
Results through the Power of Experience.
1001-5000 employees
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