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Saipavanteja Parvataneni

Dallas,USA

Summary

  • Senior Site Reliability & Dynatrace Monitoring Engineer with over 9 years of experience across Finance, Insurance, Government, and Automotive domains.
  • Expert in designing and implementing full-stack observability using Dynatrace for modern cloud-native and legacy hybrid environments.
  • Proficient in setting up end-to-end Dynatrace environments, including OneAgent deployment, ActiveGate configuration, and Smartscape topology modeling.
  • In-depth experience configuring log ingestion pipelines via Dynatrace Grail, Log Management v2, FluentBit, and API-based collectors.
  • Strong skills in building and tuning custom log processing rules, pipelines, and extraction patterns to transform unstructured logs into actionable metadata.
  • Migrated centralized log platforms from Splunk to Dynatrace using Log Ingest APIs and Grail, reducing license costs and improving query performance.
  • Integrated Dynatrace Log Monitoring with AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, Kubernetes workloads, and Azure VMs using OneAgent and cloud-native collectors.
  • Designed and implemented log enrichment and tagging strategies for real-time filtering, alerting, and RCA on dynamic environments.
  • Automated log-based alerting workflows using Dynatrace Workflows and Problem Notifications (email, Slack, Jira, ServiceNow).
  • Created dynamic dashboards in Data Explorer and Notebooks for querying live logs using DQL (Dynatrace Query Language).
  • Configured log retention policies and pipeline storage controls to manage costs and compliance across multiple environments.
  • Created custom management zones and auto-tag rules to isolate logs by environment (dev/test/prod), application, and business unit.
  • Integrated external logs from containerized workloads using FluentD, FluentBit, and log sidecars into Dynatrace Grail.
  • Hands-on experience with log ingestion from AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Kubernetes audit logs.
  • Migrated legacy application logs from BMC and SiteScope to Dynatrace for centralized access and advanced filtering.
  • Developed custom extensions and log parsers to monitor proprietary formats and internal services.
  • Built out automated log correlation with PurePath traces and distributed services for faster root cause analysis.
  • Applied pattern-based anomaly detection to log patterns using DQL to proactively identify performance degradations.
  • Built log summary dashboards for leadership, including error heatmaps, top error sources, and slow transaction counts.
  • Enabled auto-discovery of logs via OneAgent on dynamic infrastructure using host groups and process group detection.
  • Set up log forwarding integrations to external SIEM tools like Splunk and Elastic via Dynatrace Logs API.
  • Designed log flow from EC2/Linux VMs → FluentBit → Dynatrace Ingest API → Grail with retry/backpressure handling.
  • Defined and maintained log storage and retention policies for PCI-compliant systems across cloud regions.
  • Established log-based SLO tracking for services using error-rate derived metrics from Grail logs.
  • Configured log event-based auto-remediation via Dynatrace Workflows and AWS Lambda integrations.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2021
2021
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Observability Engineer - Dynatrace

Centene Corporation
Dallas, Texas
10.2024 - Current
  • Led end-to-end Dynatrace implementation for over 100 applications across legacy, cloud, and containerized environments.
  • Installed and configured Dynatrace Managed Clusters, ActiveGates, and OneAgents on Linux, Windows, and application/web servers.
  • Deployed OneAgents on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and container platforms like Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
  • Monitored performance of distributed systems across on-prem, AWS, PCF, and OpenShift, ensuring full-stack observability.
  • Customized Dynatrace environments with tags, management zones, custom alerts, and alerting profiles as per app team needs.
  • Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) for web and mobile apps and configured User Session Analysis using Dynatrace and QM.
  • Created custom service detection rules, request attributes, and custom metrics for advanced monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Utilized Dynatrace APIs for automation, license tracking, tagging, dashboard generation, and maintenance window scheduling.
  • Built dashboards and alerts in Splunk for extended monitoring and log analysis alongside Dynatrace.
  • Strong hands-on experience in infrastructure and container monitoring, including Docker, Kubernetes pods, and hypervisors.
  • Automated log-based alerting workflows integrated with ServiceNow and Jira using Dynatrace Workflows and APIs.
  • Designed advanced log ingestion pipelines integrating FluentBit Dynatrace Grail for hybrid AWS/Kubernetes workloads.
  • Implemented pattern-based anomaly detection using DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) for early detection of performance degradations.

Observability Engineer

TECHNOWIZ IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Dublin, Dublin1
12.2022 - 09.2024
  • Proficient in end-to-end implementation of Dynatrace SaaS, including OneAgent deployment, environment configuration, and performance tuning.
  • Installed and managed OneAgents across diverse tech stacks including Java on Linux and .NET on Windows servers.
  • Customized Dynatrace extensively with tags, management zones, alerting profiles, and custom alerts to streamline observability.
  • Implemented Dynatrace across AWS and Azure cloud environments for full-stack monitoring of cloud-native applications.
  • Deployed Dynatrace in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and configured monitoring for microservices workloads.
  • Developed tailored dashboards and executive views for application and infrastructure teams using Dynatrace and DQL.
  • Onboarded multiple applications for observability using Dynatrace and Datadog, ensuring complete visibility and alerting.
  • Resolved high-priority P1/P2 incidents by leveraging Dynatrace Smartscape, PurePath, and problem analysis tools.
  • Created and managed SLOs, workflows, and SRE dashboards to track SLIs and error budgets aligned with reliability goals.
  • Automated infrastructure and monitoring configurations using Terraform for consistent and scalable observability setups.

Site reliability engineer

TECHNOWIZ IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Dublin, ireland
09.2020 - 09.2022

•Experience as Dynatrace Administrator and maintaining Dynatrace managed in Linux environments
including Konvoy &AKS deployments.
• Experience in migrate Dynatrace Managed to Dynatrace SaaS
• Working closely with architects planning Dynatrace environment scalability in different
environments.
• Experience Installation of Dynatrace various components like cluster nodes, Environment active
gates, and cluster active gates.
• Experience in analysis logs on Grail in Dynatrace SaaS product
• Instrumenting Dynatrace agents on web-based and Cloud-based applications (AWS, PCF, Azure
platform, Google Cloud Platform) and Adobe experience manager.
• Worked with Dynatrace Sales rep to get setup license management for new environments

• implementation of Dynatrace Managed. Apply scripting language (phyton, bash, power shell).
• Set up Dynatrace Monitoring for various web applications and cloud-based applications (AWS,
Kubernetes).
• Experience in integration of new features like VMware monitoring setup in Dynatrace Managed
environment
• Experience using Chef, Puppet, or Ansible to deploy and manage Dynatrace agents in various
environments.
• Apply knowledge of java/.net based applications.
• Deploy Dynatrace to diverse environments, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows servers.
• Installing, maintaining, and operating Dynatrace Managed - Working with Dynatrace plugins such as
IBM queue monitoring, Splunk plugins, SQL server or Oracle plugins, and New Relic plugins.
• Experience in deployment of Dynatrace one agent on multiple platforms by CI/CD pipeline.
• Work with different SRE teams to create SLO and set alerts in Dynatrace.
• Experience in Managing Dynatrace support tickets like application performance monitoring issues,
and Dynatrace product-related support tickets.
• Assist application teams or various Dynatrace users with product direction and provide insights
based on environmental and performance data.

• Expertise in creating synthetic monitoring for URL monitoring, application transactions, and API-
based URL l (http monitors, browser monitors).

• Experience in problem-solving using Dynatrace AI to troubleshoot problems and find root causes.
• Experience in custom integration of APM tools with ServiceNow for alert notifications setup.
• Software development experience with Java, Python, and Chef cookbooks (Ruby).
• Foundational knowledge of web concepts such as HTML, JS, CSS, and DOM objects.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts clearly and succinctly.

Build And Release Engineer

CIL INFOSERVE
Hyderabad, India
01.2015 - 02.2019

• Installed, Upgraded, and configured Red Hat Linux 5.x and Windows Server 2003.

• Installed latest patches for, Linux and Application servers, performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning.

• Involved in creating new users, groups, and setting up their home directories and appropriate access restrictions to software and directories & files.

• Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Team Foundation Server (TFS) in Windows environments.

• Maintained History of all the repositories using Team Foundation Server (TFS).

• Responsible for designing and deploying the best SCM processes and procedures.

• Helped developers to resolve source code merging issues.

• Build and release software baselines, code merges, branch and label creation and interface between development and infrastructure.

• Good Quality release notes. Implemented sustainable branching models for organizations.

• Performed regular builds and deployment of the packages for testing in different Environments.

• Created build and deployment scripts using windows PowerShell v2.0 to automate the process.

• Created release notes for all the package builds.

• Following up with the Test Team & Development Team to resolve the build issue.

• Worked with the Quality Assurance team to develop processes that increase development and deployment efficiency, reduce defects, and exceed client quality expectations.

• Documented the policies and procedures for branching, labeling, code merging, check-in/checkout, and builds.

• Co-ordination with service managers, change managers, development, and deployment teams.

Booking slots for production deployment and preparing the deployment schedule.

• Provided support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and pager support.

Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls, attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment

Education

Master of Science (MSc.): - Data Analytics

DublinBusinessSchool
Dublin,Ireland

Skills

 Dynatrace installation and configuration
 Log collection, search, and dashboards
 Log migration (Splunk ➜ Dynatrace)
 AWS fundamentals (EC2, S3, CloudWatch)
 Python & Bash scripting for automation
 Linux and Windows server basics
 Incident response and alert tuning

Timeline

Observability Engineer - Dynatrace

Centene Corporation
10.2024 - Current

Observability Engineer

TECHNOWIZ IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
12.2022 - 09.2024

Site reliability engineer

TECHNOWIZ IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
09.2020 - 09.2022

Build And Release Engineer

CIL INFOSERVE
01.2015 - 02.2019

Master of Science (MSc.): - Data Analytics

DublinBusinessSchool
Saipavanteja Parvataneni