Dynatrace Observability Engineer McLean, VA 80hr Contract

Dynatrace Observability Engineer - McLean VA - $80/hr

Location: McLean VA

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Overview:

Were seeking an experienced Dynatrace Observability Engineer to design implement and optimize enterprise observability solutions across complex cloud hybrid-cloud and distributed application environments.

This role will serve as a subject matter expert for application performance monitoring infrastructure observability distributed tracing and proactive incident detection using Dynatrace. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Dynatrace APM cloud platforms automation and modern observability practices supporting mission-critical enterprise systems.

Local candidates are strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

Administer and maintain the Dynatrace platform including configuration governance upgrades and integrations.

Deploy and manage Dynatrace OneAgents and ActiveGates across cloud on-premises and Kubernetes environments.

Build and maintain dashboards alerts SLOs management zones tagging strategies and observability standards.

Implement end-to-end monitoring for applications APIs infrastructure logs and digital user experiences.

Configure distributed tracing service flow mapping Real User Monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring.

Analyze application performance latency bottlenecks and reliability issues using Dynatrace Davis AI.

Define and measure SLIs and SLOs aligned with business objectives.

Integrate Dynatrace with CI/CD pipelines ITSM platforms logging solutions and event management tools.

Develop automation solutions using PowerShell Python Bash Terraform Ansible or similar technologies.

Support incident response root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

Deliver reporting analytics and observability insights to technical and business stakeholders.

Promote observability best practices across engineering SRE DevOps and cloud teams.

Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

10 years of enterprise monitoring observability or performance engineering experience.

10 years of hands-on Dynatrace APM experience.

Strong knowledge of observability pillars including metrics logs traces and events.

Experience with cloud platforms including AWS Azure or GCP.

Kubernetes and container monitoring experience.

Experience configuring dashboards alerting tagging rules management zones and SLOs.

Strong understanding of microservices distributed systems APIs and application performance management.

Experience with automation scripting using Python PowerShell Bash or similar tools.

Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or GitLab.

Strong troubleshooting analytical and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Dynatrace Associate or Professional Certification.

Experience with Dynatrace Grail Logs or OpenTelemetry.

Experience with Monitoring-as-Code (Monaco) or Terraform.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.

Performance engineering experience.

Experience integrating Dynatrace with ServiceNow Splunk PagerDuty Prometheus Grafana Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Knowledge of network monitoring and synthetic testing solutions.

Salesforce application monitoring experience.

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay Rate: $80/hour

Employment Type: Contract

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Visa Sponsorship: No visa sponsorship available.

Relocation Assistance: No relocation assistance available.

Local candidates strongly preferred.

Benefits may be available based on employment classification.

Apply Today:

If youre passionate about observability cloud monitoring application performance optimization and helping organizations achieve operational excellence through data-driven insights we encourage you to apply today.