Site Reliability Engineer Platform Lead - Datadog Azure

Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead / Observability Engineer / Observability Lead / Manager / SRE / Datadog / Azure / 6-month contract / Hybrid – West Midlands / Remote / £450 – 600 per day Inside IR35. 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 – £450 – 600 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. Desirable:
• Datadog certifications.
• Azure certifications.
• Cloudflare administration experience.
• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering leadership roles.