Dynatrace Consultant - Cambridge - £550 per day Umbrella - CONTRACT

We are recruiting for a Dynatrace Consultant on contract to work for our client based in Cambridge.

We are looking for a hands-on Dynatrace expert to join our observability team who are rolling out the platform across the company. We are building a centre of excellence to support adoption across hundreds of teams, so you will work closely with platform teams, application owners, and DevOps engineers to ensure the successful adoption of Dynatrace through best practices, hands-on guidance, and integration with existing monitoring ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical consulting and enablement to internal teams on using Dynatrace effectively.

Guide teams in building dashboards, alerts, and service flow mappings aligned to engineering needs.

Help teams craft complex DQL queries to extract meaningful insights from telemetry data.

Support observability design and migration efforts from Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to Dynatrace.

Advise on RBAC models and data access strategies based on team structure and security requirements.

Assist in monitoring strategy for Kubernetes-based workloads, especially in hybrid environments.

Promote adoption of observability-as-code using tools like Terraform, GitLab, or other IaC frameworks.

Contribute to reusable patterns, documentation, and internal enablement materials for engineering teams.

Required Skills and

Experience

Hands-on experience with Dynatrace platform, especially in consulting, onboarding, or solution design roles.

Proficiency in writing and optimizing Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) queries.

Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure (cloud + on-prem) and modern application stacks.

Solid grasp of Kubernetes architecture; real-world experience in monitoring K8s with Dynatrace is highly preferred.

Expertise in deployment of Dynatrace one Agents on Kubernetes environment

Should have clear understanding of working with Dynatrace capabilities to organize and group hosts, processes

Should have good understanding of Dynatrace capabilities in managing RBAC

Experience and creativity to understand the pain points of different stakeholders and create impactful Dynatrace dashboards for SREs and developers.

Well versed with Dynatrace capabilities in alert detection, alert correlation using AI Davis to create alerting configuration which reduces noise and are high precision alerts

Nice to Have

Exposure to Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch monitoring tools.

Experience with Terraform, GitLab, or similar IaC/DevOps tooling.

Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or platform engineering is a plus.

Integration experience with tools like slack, backstage will be of great value add.