via Reed · 7 October 2026 ·2 days ago

Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Lead – Datadog

MYO Talent
West Midlands (Region) Contract GBP 130,000 – 169,000
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Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead / Observability Engineer / Observability Lead / Manager / SRE / Datadog / Azure / 6-month contract / Hybrid – West Midlands / Remote / £500 – 650 per day.

One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to build and operate a world-class monitoring, synthetic testing, and reliability platform.

Location – West Midlands / Remote

Duration – 6 months +

Day rate – £500 – 650 per day

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.

Desirable:
  • Datadog certifications.

  • Azure certifications.

  • Cloudflare administration experience.

  • Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering leadership roles.

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