Cloud Monitoring Engineer

BuzzClan
Atlanta, GA

Senior Dynatrace Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise monitoring solutions. The role focuses on ensuring end-to-end observability across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments using Dynatrace. The engineer will also provide expertise in performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and proactive incident management.

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring & Observability

· Configure, maintain, and optimize monitoring solutions using Dynatrace.

· Provide end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and services.

· Develop dashboards, alerts, and health checks to monitor system performance.

· Define monitoring thresholds to reduce false alerts and improve reliability.

Infrastructure Monitoring

· Monitor Windows and Linux servers, virtual environments (VMware), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

· Monitor databases, middleware, and network infrastructure components.

· Identify system trends and capacity requirements with infrastructure teams.

· Proactively detect and resolve system performance issues.

Application Performance Monitoring

· Monitor application performance and transaction flows using Dynatrace APM.

· Implement synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring.

· Collaborate with development teams to ensure comprehensive monitoring coverage.

· Troubleshoot performance issues across applications and systems.

Incident Management

· Support incident response activities related to performance and availability issues.

· Provide monitoring insights during root cause analysis.

· Identify monitoring gaps and improve monitoring coverage.

Continuous Improvement

· Improve monitoring standards, documentation, and best practices.

· Recommend enhancements to monitoring configurations and alerting strategies.

· Integrate monitoring tools with ITSM platforms such as Jira or ServiceNow.

Required Qualifications

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Experience

· Minimum 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure support, or monitoring roles.

· 5+ years hands-on experience with Dynatrace or similar APM tools.

· Experience migrating Dynatrace Managed to Dynatrace SaaS environments.

Technical Skills

· Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux servers and VMware environments.

· Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

· Understanding of networking concepts such as DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.

· Experience with automation or scripting (PowerShell, Bash).

· Knowledge of monitoring baselines, KPIs, and SLAs.

· Familiarity with enterprise log analysis frameworks and tools like Jira or ServiceNow.

· Experience monitoring containerized environments such as Kubernetes (preferred).

Preferred

· Exposure to AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification.

Soft Skills

· Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

· Excellent written and verbal communication.

· Ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

· Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to system monitoring and reliability.