Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Job Description
Job Title: Observability Engineer – Dynatrace & BigPanda
Location: Maclean, VA
Employment Type: Contract
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Observability Engineer to design, implement, and manage enterprise-grade monitoring and incident response frameworks. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Dynatrace and BigPanda, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to drive observability strategy across cloud-native and on-premise environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop, configure, and maintain monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, BigPanda, and related observability tools.
Integrate alerts, metrics, and logs into a centralized incident management system.
Design and implement automated event correlation, root cause analysis, and proactive alerting mechanisms.
Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and application teams to improve system reliability and performance.
Create dashboards, reports, and KPIs to track system health and incident trends.
Continuously optimize monitoring coverage and observability best practices across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Support on-call rotations and incident response efforts.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (APM, infrastructure monitoring, synthetic monitoring).
Proficiency in BigPanda for event correlation and incident management.
Strong understanding of monitoring frameworks, logging, and metrics collection (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for automation and integration.
Solid problem-solving skills and experience with incident response workflows.
Familiarity with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira) is a plus.
Required Skills
AWS ENGINEER
DEVOPS ENGINEER
SENIOR EMAIL SECURITY ENGINEER