Observability Engineer

Observability Engineer

Rate: £598

Clearance Required: SC Eligible

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford - 2 days min per month

IR35 Status: Inside

Role Description

As a Dynatrace/Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate high-level monitoring and non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations in Dynatrace.
• Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.
• Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.
• Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency within immature teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience configuring Dynatrace alerts, workflows, extensions, DQL Queries
• Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling including Dynatrace
• Experience delivering Dynatrace configuration using automation (Terraform or Monaco)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools including Dynatrace
• Strong understanding and experience in SRE principals and methodologies
• Strong understanding of Observability within a complex tech stack.
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.
• Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles
• Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.

Mandatory Certifications

Dynatrace Associate Certification