Dynatrace Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Proven, extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating the Dynatrace Observability platform across enterprise environments.
• Typically 5+ years in observability, monitoring or APM disciplines, with at least 3 years of deep, hands-on Dynatrace delivery.
• Strong experience producing observability architecture and design documentation and leading technical implementation within structured, phased programmes.
• Working knowledge of the Dynatrace API and Workflows for automation, integration and data extraction.
• Awareness of data-protection considerations in observability tooling, including handling of PII in ingested telemetry and use of data-masking or pipeline controls.
• Familiarity with the wider observability ecosystem and associated technologies, including:
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker.
• Operating systems: Linux and Windows Server.
• Telemetry and observability signals: OpenTelemetry (OTEL), application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, log monitoring, real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring.
• ITSM integration, with strong ServiceNow knowledge for incident and problem management.
• CI/CD and automation tooling such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible or Terraform.
• Scripting for automation and data extraction: Python, Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Core networking concepts: firewalls, ports, proxies, DNS and TLS.
• Strong knowledge of Agentic AI technologies and autonomous operations principles.
• Hold at least one Dynatrace certification appropriate to the level of the role, with professional-level certification strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and take day-to-day ownership of delivery within a structured, phased programme.
• Strong workshop and kickoff facilitation skills, engaging directly with customer stakeholders to gather requirements and validate configuration.
• Clear, confident written and verbal communication for customer status reporting and technical documentation.
• Comfortable coordinating with third-party suppliers and working within formal change-control processes.
• Organised and self-sufficient; able to manage concurrent workstreams across multiple client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead observability solution design and architecture, producing High Level Design, Low Level Design and Technical Design documentation.
• Own end-to-end deployment of the Dynatrace platform, including OneAgent, Environment ActiveGate and OpenTelemetry collector or agent deployment and configuration.
• Design and configure dashboards, alerting profiles and segments, problem notifications and workflows, tagging, process monitoring, synthetic monitors and SLOs.
• Implement Dynatrace log management and custom event modelling, including log buckets and retention, log events, custom metrics and business events derived from logs.
• Build automation and integrations using the Dynatrace API and Dynatrace Workflows, including integration with ITSM tooling for incident and problem management.
• Act as the technical lead on client engagements, running kickoffs and requirement-gathering workshops, managing customer stakeholder relationships and providing regular status reporting.
• Support the ongoing operation, health and tuning of deployed environments, and contribute to managed or retained observability support services.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior consultants, and develop and deliver training and enablement sessions to customer teams.

Technologies

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Dynatrace
• GitLab
• Support
• ITSM
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenShift
• PowerShell
• Python
• ServiceNow
• Terraform
• Windows
• Network

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We are expanding our Dynatrace Observability Practice and are seeking an experienced Senior Observability Consultant to lead the design and deployment of the Dynatrace platform for a UK client. This is a senior, client-facing, hands-on technical leadership role covering architecture, implementation, ongoing operation and optimisation, while mentoring junior consultants and acting as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders. The role is remote for 6 months, with market rates and active SC clearance required; eligible candidates will be considered. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 30 week of 2026