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Role: Dynatrace Monitoring Architect Location: Columbus OH/Remote Exp: 8 -12 Years Skills: Dynatrace, RUM, Synthetic, APM, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, ITIL, SRE, and AIOps practices We are seeking an experienced Observability Architect with deep expertise in Dynatrace to design, implement, and scale end-to-end observability solutions across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. The role involves driving observability strategy, enabling proactive monitoring, supporting AIOps/self-healing capabilities, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights that improve availability, performance, and reliability. Key Responsibilities • Define and own the observability strategy using Dynatrace as the core platform, integrating with existing IT monitoring ecosystems. • Design and implement end-to-end monitoring architectures across applications, microservices, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and cloud workloads. • Architect service flow mapping, distributed tracing, real-user monitoring (RUM), and synthetic monitoring frameworks. • Enable AI-driven root cause analysis (RCA), anomaly detection, and self-healing automation through Dynatrace and its ecosystem. • Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, SREs, and application teams to embed observability in CI/CD pipelines. • Drive instrumentation best practices for logs, metrics, and traces following Open Telemetry (OTel) and other open standards. • Establish dashboards, service-level objectives (SLOs), and key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with business outcomes. • Provide technical leadership, governance, and roadmap planning for observability adoption across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. • Act as a Dynatrace subject matter expert (SME), mentoring teams and influencing observability maturity. Required Skills & Experience • 8–12 years of IT experience with at least 4+ years in Observability/Monitoring architecture. • Hands-on expertise in Dynatrace deployment, configuration, and architecture (App Monitoring, Infra Monitoring, RUM, Synthetic, APM). • Strong understanding of application architectures: microservices, containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker), APIs, cloud-native apps. • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/on-premises integrations. • Knowledge of ITIL, SRE, and AIOps practices with a focus on proactive incident management and RCA. • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ELK/EFK stack, Grafana, ServiceNow integration is a plus. • Proven ability to architect dashboards and service-level indicators (SLIs/SLOs) mapped to business KPIs. • Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills. Preferred Certification • Dynatrace Certified Professional / Associate / Master certification • Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) • ITIL Foundation / SRE Foundation