Senior Observability Engineer/Analyst

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer / Analyst to drive end-to-end observability strategies and ensure application, platform, and infrastructure visibility. The role involves collaborating with engineering and operations teams to enhance monitoring and system reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Administer and optimize Dynatrace (SaaS/Managed), including alerting, anomaly detection, dashboards, tagging, and management zones
• Serve as the Dynatrace subject matter expert (SME), supporting troubleshooting, resolving data gaps, and continuously improving monitoring effectiveness
• Build and maintain dashboards and DQL queries to deliver actionable insights for application and platform performance
• Deploy and support Dynatrace OneAgent across Azure environments, including Windows/Linux VMs, Kubernetes (AKS), and Function Apps
• Design, implement, and manage ActiveGate infrastructure for traffic routing, synthetic monitoring, and extension execution

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Dynatrace (UI and backend capabilities)
• Proven experience deploying and managing ActiveGates (VM routing, synthetics, and extensions)
• Solid expertise in Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and dashboard creation
• Experience with Azure cloud environments, including VMs, Kubernetes (AKS), and Function Apps
• Hands-on implementation experience with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for modern workloads
• Experience supporting hybrid or large-scale enterprise monitoring environments
• Knowledge of observability best practices and modern monitoring frameworks
• Familiarity with automation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code tools
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning experience across distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner across technical and non-technical teams