Why This Role Stands Out
This hybrid Infrastructure Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to deepen your expertise in Dynatrace administration and observability, contributing to critical monitoring initiatives within a well-regarded company. You'll thrive here if you possess strong skills in APM, synthetic monitoring, and server administration, and are eager to take on impactful projects. Apply now to leverage your technical talents and grow your career in this dynamic environment.
Quick Overview
Job Description
Role Type: W2 contract
Location: Columbus, OH 43215
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent work experience.
Required Technical Skills:
* Dynatrace Administration and Engineering
* Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
* Observability Engineering
* Synthetic Monitoring
* Real User Monitoring (RUM)
* Windows Server Administration
* Linux Administration
* VMware Monitoring
* AWS and Azure Monitoring
* ActiveGate Deployment and Administration
* Monitoring Dashboard Development
* Alert Management and Event Correlation
* ServiceNow Integration
* Root Cause Analysis
* Enterprise Incident Management
* TCP/IP, DNS, SSL, Load Balancers, and Networking Fundamentals
* Database Monitoring (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
* ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management
Infrastructure Engineer Sr / Principal Enterprise Observability & Monitoring Engineer (Dynatrace)
Job Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Observability and Monitoring Engineer to serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise monitoring technologies including Dynatrace and related monitoring platforms. This position is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, enhancement, and operational support of the company s enterprise monitoring ecosystem.
The engineer will partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and operations teams to deliver proactive monitoring, performance management, automation, and observability solutions across critical business applications and infrastructure.
This role requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into actionable monitoring and observability strategies.
* Administer and support Dynatrace enterprise monitoring environments.
* Design and implement monitoring solutions for business-critical applications and infrastructure.
* Develop standards for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational observability.
* Continuously improve enterprise monitoring coverage and accuracy.
* Tune alerting thresholds and event correlation to reduce false positives while ensuring timely incident detection.
* Support enterprise observability initiatives across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
* Deploy and administer Dynatrace OneAgent technologies.
* Onboarding large scale applications
* Monitor application health, service dependencies, user experience, and transaction performance.
* Support Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetic Monitoring implementations.
* Analyze application performance issues and identify performance bottlenecks.
* Provide end-to-end visibility across application ecosystems.
Infrastructure Monitoring
* Monitor Windows, Linux, VMware, OpenShift, and cloud-hosted environments.
* Support monitoring for databases, middleware, network infrastructure, storage systems, domain services, load balancers, and enterprise applications.
* Assist infrastructure teams with capacity planning and performance optimization.
* Proactively identify monitoring gaps and service risks.
Monitoring Engineering & Automation
* Develop custom monitoring solutions and Dynatrace Extensions 2.0.
* Create and maintain custom SQL, Oracle, and enterprise application monitoring extensions.
* Build dashboards, metrics, health checks, and alerting policies.
* Automate monitoring deployment and configuration processes.
* Support infrastructure-as-code and configuration management initiatives where applicable.
Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis
* Participate in major incident response and war room activities.
* Perform root cause analysis for application, infrastructure, and monitoring-related incidents.
* Provide monitoring expertise during outage investigations.
* Develop corrective actions and preventative monitoring improvements.
ServiceNow & Event Management Integration
* Support integration between Dynatrace, ServiceNow, and enterprise event management platforms.
* Define monitoring requirements needed for automated incident creation.
* Assist with event correlation, CI alignment, and ticket automation workflows.
* Partner with operations teams to improve incident response processes.
Cloud & Modern Application Monitoring
* Support monitoring solutions for AWS, Azure, SaaS, containerized, and microservices-based applications.
* Deploy and support ActiveGate infrastructure.
* Assist application teams with onboarding modern cloud workloads into enterprise monitoring platforms.
* Support SSO, authentication, synthetic transaction monitoring, and end-user experience monitoring.
Customer Engagement & Consulting
* Consult with application owners and infrastructure teams regarding monitoring requirements.
* Lead onboarding activities for new applications and services.
* Conduct monitoring requirement workshops and technical discovery sessions.
* Provide guidance and best practices across the enterprise.
Governance, Compliance & Documentation
* Maintain monitoring architecture documentation, procedures, and standards.
* Support NERC/CIP and other regulatory monitoring requirements.
* Participate in change management, CAB reviews, and operational governance processes.
* Develop and maintain operational runbooks and support documentation.
Leadership & Soft Skills
* Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills
* Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical abilities
* Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
* Ability to prioritize multiple projects and operational demands
* Self-directed and highly accountable
* Strong collaboration skills across infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams
* Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers
* Strategic mindset with the ability to align monitoring capabilities with business outcomes
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