Observability Engineer (Dynatrace)
Mississauga - Canada
Job Summary
Observability Engineer (Dynatrace)
Work Style: Hybrid Minimum 3 days onsite
Job Purpose
The Observability Platform Engineer will work closely with infrastructure development support and database teams to determine observability requirements and implement filters events alerts and dashboardsprimarily using Dynatrace. The role is responsible for recommending installing configuring and maintaining the Dynatrace platform and ensuring its optimal use across the organization.
Accountabilities
- Collaborate with infrastructure support development and database teams to gather requirements and deploy observability solutions
- Design configure and maintain dashboards filters events and alerts tailored to business needs
- Perform root cause analysis using logs analytics and documentation
- Conduct proactive health checks and incident reviews; identify gaps and remediate issues
- Review infrastructure and application architecture to recommend monitoring checks
- Define analyze build and maintain observability solutions with Dynatrace as the central tool
- Remediate risks discovered in the observability platform
- Install configure and maintain Dynatrace agents across environments
- Integrate new technologies and applications into the observability platform
- Provide event correlation mechanisms to reduce alert noise
- Work with technical support teams to improve customer experience through insights
- Plan and execute disaster recovery tests for observability platforms
- Create and maintain documentation and templates related to observability
- Develop maintain and implement monitoring scripts and log queries
Required Experience & Skills
Core Technical Skills
- 4 years managing observability solutions with a focus on Dynatrace
- Handson experience with:
- Dashboard creation
- Alert configuration
- Agent deployment
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools:
- Nagios
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Kibana
- Experience with Linux and commandline interface
- Scripting/programming experience:
- Bash
- Java
- Python
- PowerShell
- Understanding of web infrastructure:
- Web servers
- Load balancers
- Application servers
NicetoHave Skills
- Understanding of infrastructure components:
- Virtualization
- Operating systems
- Networks
- Storage
- Experience with OpenShift / AKS
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies
- Database experience: PostgreSQL MSSQL