APM Engineer (Application Performance Management Engineer)

Job Title: APM Engineer (Application Performance Management Engineer)

Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite 5 days a week) Job Type: Long Term Contract Employment Type: W2 Only Experience Required: 12 Years

Job Summary We are seeking a highly experienced

APM Engineer

with deep expertise in building and optimizing observability solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will excel in configuring monitoring tools, developing automation scripts, and driving end-to-end performance visibility for large-scale distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability

Configure, implement, and optimize

Dynatrace ,

Zabbix ,

PagerDuty , and

Alertbot

for full-stack application and infrastructure monitoring.

Utilize

Dynatrace DQL ,

APIs ,

custom extensions , and

AI/OPS

features to enhance observability and automated root-cause detection.

Build dashboards, alerts, synthetic tests, and custom event processing rules.

Cloud & Infrastructure Monitoring

Enable monitoring across

AWS ,

ECS , and

on-prem servers .

Monitor and analyze AWS services using

CloudWatch , and integrate metrics and events with

Dynatrace .

Ensure comprehensive monitoring coverage for microservices, containers, load balancers, databases, and distributed systems.

DevOps & Automation

Create and manage

PBIs (Product Backlog Items)

in

Azure DevOps

for monitoring improvements, incidents, and automation tasks.

Develop

automation and integration scripts

using

Shell ,

PowerShell

and

YAML .

Work with CI/CD and infrastructure automation processes to embed observability standards.

Incident Management & Performance Optimization

Configure alerting workflows and escalations using

PagerDuty .

Analyze performance trends, bottlenecks, and resource usage to provide actionable recommendations.

Support production issues by identifying root causes with monitoring tools and logs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

12 years of IT experience with strong focus on

APM, Observability, and Monitoring .

Hands‑on experience with

Dynatrace ,

Zabbix ,

PagerDuty , and

Alertbot .

Strong expertise in

Dynatrace DQL , extensions, API integrations, and

AI/OPS .

Proven experience monitoring

AWS ,

ECS , and hybrid/on‑prem environments.

Proficiency in

CloudWatch

monitoring and integrating AWS data with

Dynatrace .

Strong scripting experience in

Shell ,

PowerShell

and

YAML .

Experience working with

Azure DevOps

and managing PBIs.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with containerized environments (Docker, ECS, EKS, etc.).

Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code and DevOps tooling.

Experience in performance engineering or SRE environments.

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