Chief Architect - Observability ( Dynatrace ) & DevOps
Columbus · Columbus, OH · 15+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 15+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Columbus · Columbus, OH
About the role
- The role focuses on defining and implementing enterprise-wide Observability and DevOps standards to improve application performance, reliability, security, and engineering efficiency.
- The architect will lead Dynatrace-based observability transformation as the primary responsibility, with DevOps and DevSecOps standards as a secondary focus.
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise Observability Strategy, Gold Standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and governance.
- Own Dynatrace SaaS architecture, configuration, deployment patterns, OneAgent, ActiveGate, instrumentation, access controls, tagging, and platform optimization.
- Establish observability standards for APM, infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, distributed tracing, logs, metrics, synthetic monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
- Define telemetry collection, instrumentation, application onboarding, dashboards, alerting, Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and performance baselines.
- Establish reusable observability patterns for microservices, cloud-native, serverless, legacy, and hybrid applications.
- Lead hands-on implementation and enterprise adoption of Dynatrace and Observability Gold Standards across applications and infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot complex application performance, distributed tracing, infrastructure, OneAgent, ActiveGate, telemetry ingestion, and monitoring configuration issues.
- Implement event correlation, anomaly detection, alert noise reduction, root-cause analysis, and actionable incident detection.
- Integrate Dynatrace with ServiceNow ITSM and relevant AIOps, incident management, and operational automation platforms.
- Lead technology assessments, hands-on evaluations, POVs, technical demonstrations, and build-versus-buy-versus-partner recommendations.
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall experience in technology architecture, application performance engineering, infrastructure, observability, or related disciplines.
- Mandatory, strong hands-on Dynatrace SaaS expertise, including architecture, configuration, implementation, application onboarding, and enterprise-scale adoption.
- Deep knowledge of Dynatrace APM, OneAgent, ActiveGate, distributed tracing, service topology, Davis AI capabilities, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis.
- Proven experience defining observability architectures, instrumentation standards, dashboards, alerting, Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, and performance baselines.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across complex applications, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience integrating Dynatrace with ServiceNow ITSM, APIs, AIOps platforms, and operational automation.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology POVs, define enterprise standards, and drive hands-on implementation and adoption.
- Strong working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, containers, Kubernetes, GitOps, and DevSecOps practices.
- Proven enterprise architecture, stakeholder management, technical evangelization, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenTelemetry, and hybrid cloud environments.
- SRE, reliability engineering, incident management, and operational automation experience.
- Familiarity with complementary observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Relevant Dynatrace certifications or equivalent demonstrated technical expertise.
Skills
- Dynatrace
- Dynatrace SaaS
- APM
- OneAgent
- ActiveGate
- Kubernetes
- ServiceNow
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Terraform
- Infrastructure As Code
- CI/CD
Show all 15 skills
- GitOps
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS
