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Role: Dynatrace Engineer
Location: Irving, TX (hybrid)
Someone who can work on a W2 basis; OPT is also acceptable if the candidate has decent experience.
Skills
Role: Dynatrace Engineer
Location: Irving, TX (hybrid)
Someone who can work on a W2 basis; OPT is also acceptable if the candidate has decent experience.
Skills
- Hands-on expertise with the Dynatrace platform, a deep understanding of infrastructure and application monitoring, and the ability to integrate Dynatrace into complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Experience in APM, observability, or infrastructure monitoring.
- Strong hands-on experience with Dynatrace OneAgent, Dynatrace Managed/SaaS and observability modules (APM, RUM, Synthetic, Log Monitoring).
- Experience integrating Dynatrace with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, Jira).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell) and API-based automation.
- Strong understanding of application architectures (microservices, containers, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Knowledge of infrastructure components (Windows/Linux servers, network, storage, databases.
- Familiarity with observability ecosystem tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Ability to work with globally distributed teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
- Deploy and configure Dynatrace agents across servers, applications, containers, and cloud workloads.
- Enable and fine-tune Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), Synthetic Monitoring, and Log Monitoring.
- Design custom dashboards, alerts, and visualization layers tailored to application and business needs.
- Configure Davis AI and Smartscape topology to ensure accurate dependency mapping and root cause detection.
- Integrate Dynatrace with CI/CD pipelines, ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, Jira), and collaboration tools.
- Automate deployment and configuration using scripts, APIs, or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Ansible or Terraform.
- Work closely with DevOps and SRE teams to embed observability practices into build, release, and operations workflows.
- Proactively monitor application and infrastructure performance, identifying bottlenecks and anomalies.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and provide recommendations to improve system reliability and performance.
- Partner with development, database, and infrastructure teams to resolve incidents and improve service uptime.
- Define and enforce observability standards, dashboards, and KPIs across the enterprise.
- Support SLO/SLA tracking and reporting to align monitoring with business objectives.
- Contribute to documentation, playbooks, and runbooks to standardize observability practices.