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 / £500 – 600 per day.
One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to implement Datadog in Azure.
Duration – 6 months +
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
- Experience integrating Cloudflare services, Strong CI/CD
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Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer employer: MYO Talent
As a leading player in the engineering sector, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer that fosters a dynamic and supportive work culture. Our East Midlands location offers employees the chance to thrive in a collaborative environment, with ample opportunities for professional growth and development, alongside competitive salaries and performance-based bonuses. Join us to build meaningful relationships with clients while contributing to innovative service solutions that drive our success.
