Senior Observability Engineer (Dynatrace)

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• We require active SC clearance, and eligible candidates will be considered.
• We are seeking someone with proven, extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating the Dynatrace Observability platform across enterprise environments.
• We typically expect 5+ years in observability, monitoring or APM disciplines, including at least 3 years of deep, hands-on Dynatrace delivery.
• We need strong experience producing observability architecture and design documentation and leading technical implementation within structured, phased programmes.
• We require working knowledge of the Dynatrace API and Workflows for automation, integration and data extraction.
• We need awareness of data-protection considerations in observability tooling, including handling of PII in telemetry and use of data-masking or pipeline controls.
• We are looking for familiarity with the wider observability ecosystem, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• We need experience with containers and orchestration, including Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker.
• We require knowledge of Linux and Windows Server environments.
• We expect familiarity with OpenTelemetry, APM, infrastructure monitoring, log monitoring, RUM and synthetic monitoring.
• We need strong ServiceNow knowledge for incident and problem management.
• We value experience with CI/CD and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible or Terraform.
• We require scripting skills for automation and data extraction, such as Python, Bash and/or PowerShell.
• We need core networking knowledge, including firewalls, ports, proxies, DNS and TLS.
• We are looking for strong knowledge of Agentic AI technologies and autonomous operations principles.
• We require at least one Dynatrace certification appropriate to the level of the role; professional-level certification is strongly preferred.
• We need demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and take day-to-day ownership of delivery within a structured, phased programme.
• We require strong workshop and kickoff facilitation skills, with the ability to engage directly with customer stakeholders to gather requirements and validate configuration.
• We need clear, confident written and verbal communication for customer status reporting and technical documentation.
• We expect you to be comfortable coordinating with third-party suppliers and working within formal change-control processes.
• We require someone who is organised and self-sufficient, able to manage concurrent workstreams across multiple client engagements.

Responsibilities

• We lead observability solution design and architecture, producing High Level Design, Low Level Design and Technical Design documentation, including network zone, environment group and host group design.
• We own end-to-end deployment of the Dynatrace platform, including OneAgent, Environment ActiveGate and OpenTelemetry collector/agent deployment and configuration.
• We design and configure dashboards, alerting profiles and segments, problem notifications and workflows, tagging, process monitoring, synthetic monitors and SLOs.
• We implement Dynatrace log management and custom event modelling, including log buckets and retention, log events, custom metrics and metric events, and business events derived from logs.
• We build automation and integrations using the Dynatrace API and Dynatrace Workflows, including integration with ITSM tooling such as ServiceNow for incident and problem management.
• We act as the technical lead on client engagements, running kickoffs and requirement-gathering workshops, managing the technical relationship with customer stakeholders, and providing regular status reporting.
• We support the ongoing operation, health and tuning of deployed environments, and contribute to managed or retained observability support services.
• We mentor and provide technical guidance to junior consultants, 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
• Network
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenShift
• PowerShell
• Python
• ServiceNow
• Terraform
• Windows

More

We are expanding our Dynatrace Observability Practice and are seeking a senior, client-facing Observability Consultant to lead the design, deployment, operation and optimisation of the Dynatrace platform for a UK client. This is a 6-month remote contract offering market rates outside IR35. We need a hands-on technical leader who can own observability solutions end to end while mentoring junior consultants and acting as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders. We operate with active SC clearance requirements, and 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