Principal Dynatrace Platform Engineer

ZipStaff•Washington, DC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

ZipStaff is hiring a Principal Dynatrace Platform Engineer for a national passenger transportation organization. The engineer will serve as the subject matter expert and lead observability architect for the organization’s enterprise Dynatrace ecosystem, owning the architecture, design, and deployment of scalable self-service automation workflows across complex hybrid-cloud environments. The role uses capabilities such as Davis AI root-cause analysis, synthetic monitoring, distributed tracing, and automated remediation to provide product and engineering teams with actionable operational intelligence. The position is an 11-month W2 contract based on-site in Washington, DC. The engineer will build and maintain Dynatrace capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, establish observability standards, and collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and application delivery teams.

Requirements

At least 8 years of hands-on experience in enterprise application performance management (APM) and observability administration.
Proven expertise at a Dynatrace Master or Gold-Certified level.
Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go, including experience with the Dynatrace API and Configuration-as-Code (Monaco or Terraform provider).
Experience deploying and configuring OneAgents and ActiveGates across Kubernetes/OpenShift and major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Deep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions, and integrating automated performance gates into release cycles.
Ability to design scalable systems, document technical blueprints, and communicate observability insights to technical leaders and stakeholders.
Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC.

Nice To Haves

Dynatrace Master certification.
Experience supporting large-scale transportation or other mission-critical enterprise environments.
Experience leading observability programs in SRE-driven organizations.

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, and maintain high-availability Dynatrace deployments across multi-cloud and on-premises enterprise environments.
Design, build, and operationalize self-service automation tools, APIs, and CI/CD integrations for agent rollouts, synthetic script deployments, and monitoring lifecycle management.
Use Dynatrace capabilities including Davis AI tuning, Cloud Automation, SLO/SLA dashboards, OneAgent configuration, and distributed tracing.
Define observability best practices, tagging taxonomies, alerting policies, and configuration-as-code frameworks using Monaco or Terraform.
Partner with SRE, DevOps, and application delivery teams to promote observability adoption and troubleshoot critical bottlenecks.
Lead incident post-mortem analysis.