Observability Specialist
**Observability Specialist** (Contract)
Duration: 6 Months (Possibility for extension)
Location: London, Birmingham, Edinburgh or Leeds /Hybrid (2 days per week on site)
Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates
Role Overview
As an Observability Specialist, you will work closely with our Enterprise Monitoring & Alerting (EMAS) team to maximize the Dynatrace platform's capabilities. You will leverage your expertise in both SaaS and on-premises Dynatrace implementations to ensure that we maintain optimal performance, reliability, and alignment with business objectives.
Key Accountabilities:
- Collaborate with Application Stewards and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to identify and verify critical assets for monitoring enhancement.
- Partner with the EMAS team to analyse and improve Dynatrace coverage of these assets.
- Identify and recommend enhancements to monitoring configurations and capabilities across critical applications.
- Review and refine roles and responsibilities related to observability, emphasizing operational resilience.
- Develop automatically maintained end-to-end business flows for key processes within the Dynatrace toolset.
- Ensure optimal and purpose-fit alerting configurations in collaboration with Application Stewards and SREs.
- Facilitate workshops with third-party software suppliers to establish observability standards.
To thrive in this role, you should have extensive experience in designing and configuring the following within Dynatrace:
- Application performance monitoring
- Anomaly detection profiles
- Alerting rules and alert profiles
- Synthetic monitoring
- Log monitoring
- Real User Monitoring (RUM) to capture and analyze end-user experiences across web and mobile applications
- Proficiency in Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and Grail for advanced data exploration and analytics
- Integration of Dynatrace with external systems via APIs in complex environments
Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.
We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.
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