Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer
Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead / Platform Manager / Observability Engineer / Observability Lead / Architect / Manager / SRE / Datadog / Cloud / Azure / 6-month contract / Hybrid – West Midlands / Remote / £500 – 600 per day.
One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to implement Datadog across Azure.
Location – West Midlands / Remote - flexible
Duration – 6 months +
Day rate – Approx £500 – 650 per day Inside IR35
This role will lead the implementation of Datadog across Azure and Cloudflare, creating a comprehensive early warning system that continuously validates APIs, integrations, and customer user journeys in production.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the Datadog observability platform.
- Design and maintain synthetic monitoring for critical API and UI workflows.
- Build continuous production validation covering business-critical customer journeys.
- Integrate monitoring, testing, dashboards, and alerting into Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines.
- Develop monitoring-as-code and testing-as-code practices using Terraform.
- Create actionable dashboards, SLOs, SLIs, alerts, and anomaly detection.
- Integrate Datadog with Azure, Cloudflare, and modern SaaS architectures.
- Drive reliability, performance, and root-cause analysis across production systems.
Experience:
- Strong hands-on Datadog expertise, including: Synthetic Monitoring, APM, RUM, Log Management, SLOs and Alerting
- Deep Azure experience
- Experience integrating Cloudflare services, Strong CI/CD
- experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, Expertise in API, integration, and browser-based testing, Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
Desirable:
- Datadog certifications
- Azure certifications
- Cloudflare administration experience