Senior Observability Engineer - Dynatrace and Automation
About The Position
The OptumServe Enterprise Monitoring team is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to lead the design, automation, and operational excellence of our enterprise observability platforms. This role is heavily focused on Dynatrace administration, Python development, CI/CD engineering, and Observability-as-Code practices supporting mission-critical applications across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep experience building scalable observability solutions, automating platform operations, developing monitoring integrations, and enabling DevOps teams through self-service monitoring capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on Dynatrace engineering experience
- 5+ years supporting enterprise observability, monitoring, or SRE platforms
- 3+ years developing production-grade Python automation solutions
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
- Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Ansible
- Experience utilizing Dynatrace APIs and configuration automation
- Solid understanding of distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, events, and reliability engineering practices
- United States Citizenship
- Must provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of employment
Nice To Haves
- Dynatrace Professional or Advanced Certification
- Experience with Monaco (Monitoring as Code)
- Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Fluent Bit, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience supporting FedRAMP High or government-regulated environments
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical SME for Dynatrace Managed and Dynatrace SaaS environments
- Design, implement, and maintain Dynatrace monitoring standards, management zones, alerting strategies, tagging frameworks, and service ownership models
- Configure and optimize OneAgent, ActiveGate, Distributed Tracing, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, Davis AI, and Automation Workflows
- Develop enterprise observability standards and governance practices
- Develop Python-based automation solutions to streamline observability operations and platform administration
- Build integrations leveraging Dynatrace APIs, REST APIs, webhooks, and cloud-native services
- Create automated onboarding, validation, compliance, reporting, and remediation capabilities
- Design self-healing workflows and automated operational runbooks
- Implement and support Observability-as-Code using Dynatrace Monaco, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and/or Jenkins
- Build automated deployment pipelines for Dynatrace configurations, dashboards, alerting profiles, SLOs, and management zones
- Integrate monitoring validation into software delivery pipelines and create automated quality gates
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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