Experience: 8-12+ Years | Location: Onsite/Hybrid - any Cognizant office |
Employment Type: Contract
Job Summary
Seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / Analyst with strong hands-on Dynatrace experience to lead enterprise observability across applications, infrastructure, cloud, containers, APIs, and microservices. The role focuses on implementation, performance analysis, RCA, reliability improvement, and operational visibility.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and manage Dynatrace-based enterprise observability solutions across applications, infrastructure, databases, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud environments. Configure and administer OneAgent, ActiveGate, dashboards, management zones, alerts, monitoring configurations, custom metrics, SLOs, SLIs, and service-level monitoring. Perform APM, distributed tracing, log, metric, event, PurePath, and Service Flow analysis; use Davis AI to identify anomalies, dependencies, and root causes. Lead RCA for complex performance issues and support production releases, incident management, capacity planning, performance optimization, reliability, availability, and MTTR improvement. Integrate Dynatrace with ServiceNow, Splunk, PagerDuty, CI/CD tools, and enterprise platforms; develop automation through Dynatrace APIs, workflows, Python, PowerShell, or shell scripts. Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, development, infrastructure, and application support teams; establish observability standards, best practices, governance, and mentor junior engineers.
Required Skills 8-12+ years in IT Operations, APM, Observability, SRE, or Performance Engineering with enterprise scale Dynatrace implementation experience. Deep knowledge of Dynatrace OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI, distributed tracing, Service Flow, PurePath, dashboards, alerting, logs, metrics, traces, and events. Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, containers, microservices, API-based architectures, and AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
Strong troubleshooting, performance analysis, RCA, REST API, automation/scripting, DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, and SRE capabilities.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
Dynatrace Certified Professional/Associate; experience with OpenTelemetry and cloud-native observability. Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps; experience with ITSM/SIEM integrations such as ServiceNow, Splunk, or PagerDuty. Experience defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, enterprise observability strategy, governance, and platform adoption.
Key Skills
Dynatrace | Observability | APM | OneAgent | ActiveGate | Davis AI | PurePath | Distributed Tracing | Service Flow | Kubernetes | Docker | Microservices | AWS | Azure | GCP | OpenTelemetry | SRE | DevOps | CI/CD | SLO | SLI | RCA | Performance Engineering
Pay: Up to ₹1,500,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Commuter assistance
- Flexible schedule
- Food provided
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Mahatma Gandhi Road, Karnataka 560001