Dynatrace Subject Matter Experts

Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert - Financial Services

Locations: London, North West or Scotland

Hybrid role - Office and Remote

Rate - £700-750 per day

Are you a Dynatrace specialist looking to make a real impact on the technical monitoring and alerting capabilities of a financial services organisation? Do you want to transition from hands-on engineering into a high-influence consultancy role, shaping observability strategy across large-scale, hybrid cloud estates? If so, this opportunity is for you.

Working with the Enterprise Monitoring & Alerting (EMAS) function to maximise the value of the Dynatrace platform and uplift monitoring maturity across the organisation’s most critical services, our client is seeking a Dynatrace SME with deep platform knowledge—both SaaS and Managed—to drive end-to-end monitoring enablement, improve operational resilience, and support stronger business alignment through data-driven insights.

This project will deliver an initiative that will maximise the capability of the Dynatrace platform and ensure full End-to-End Monitoring coverage exists across the Group’s business-critical applications. We are seeking a skilled Dynatrace Admin/Consultant to play a key role in the enablement of observability across complex, hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Dynatrace implementation (SaaS and On-Premises), monitoring configuration, and AI-driven insights to support performance, reliability, and business alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Application Specialists and SREs to validate critical assets in scope for observability uplift.
• Assess and enhance Dynatrace coverage across business-critical applications.
• Identify and implement monitoring configuration improvements across hybrid environments.
• Review and refine observability roles, responsibilities, and standards with a focus on operational resilience.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of automated end-to-end business flow mapping within Dynatrace.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure alerting configurations are accurate, actionable, and aligned to service needs.
• Participate in workshops with third-party vendors to review and evolve observability standards.

Essential Skills & Experience

Demonstrable expertise in designing and configuring:

• Application Performance Monitoring; Anomaly detection profiles; Alerting rules and profiles; Synthetic monitoring
• Log monitoring; Real User Monitoring (RUM) for web and mobile; Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and Grail for advanced analytics
• API-based integrations in complex, distributed environments

Experience using Davis AI to:

• Automatically detect anomalies and degradations
• Correlate events across full-stack architectures
• Provide predictive, proactive insights

Personal Attributes

• Strong prioritisation skills in fast-paced environments
• Pragmatic, flexible, and delivery-focused
• A collaborative approach with excellent communication skills
• Background in resilience, reliability, or operational risk is advantageous