Kirtana consulting is looking for Dynatrace/Observability Engineer for 6months rolling contract in Basildon.

Job description:

Role Title: Dynatrace Expert

This role is a combination of Dynatrace/Observability Engineer and Lead COE member. Candidate should be able to hands-on Dynatrace activities if application teams are new to Dynatrace.

-Dynatrace

-AppDynamics

-Dynatrace

-preferably Dynatrace-certified

Talent should have 6+ years' work experience.

Design and implement E2E observability for business-critical payment and banking workflows

Configure request attributes to enrich traces with business context (transaction IDs, payment types)

Trace distributed transactions across microservices, MQ, mainframes, and APIs using PurePath

Use DQL basics for querying metrics, building dashboards, and operational reporting

Define and manage Management Zones for multi-team, multi-environment segmentation

Design alerting strategies that reduce noise - leveraging baselines, anomaly detection, and SLO-aligned severity tiers

Build audience-specific dashboards for executives, operations, and engineering teams

Leverage Smartscape and Davis AI for topology-aware root-cause analysis

Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for business services and integrate them into release and incident decisions

Preferred Dynatrace Associate Certified

Strong stakeholder communication

Understanding of External tool integrations(ex: Moogsoft) with Dynatrace.

Lead enterprise observability strategy across applications, API platforms, and Important business services

Engage with individual application teams to assess current observability maturity (logs, metrics, traces, events)

Define and establish Observability Center of Excellence (CoE) standards, including:

- Instrumentation guidelines

- Naming conventions

- Tagging and metadata standards

- Dashboard and alert design principles

Identify observability gaps and create structured improvement roadmaps aligned to business priorities

Drive standardization and governance across multi-team and multi-environment landscapes